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In the poem Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson conveys the message that freedom is worth the struggle to obtain it. he uses phrases such as “our weary feet” and “gloomy past” to acknowledge the hardships that have been endured. he also emphasizes the joy of freedom through phrases such as “the rising sun of our new day.”