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"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old

Elegant Lady is a work of art by Melinda Byers illustrating a black woman wearing a lavish gown picking a pink flower from a vase

The man dressed in black striped pants

reflecting her innermost desires and intentions

For the wages of sin is death

Hope david garibaldi "Train up a child inThis casting comes from the original mold used to create the Sacrifice figure in Mario Chiodo's, The Path of Thorns and Roses. Hope depicts an African American man holding the unbloomed "Rose of Freedom" as he stands on his tiptoes to avoid the thorns of oppression beneath him. The Path of Thorns and Roses is a bronze sculpture that resides at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. It was selected and commissioned by