Category: freedom
- Labels: aliens, art, common sense, deviant, freedom, genius, perception, philosophy, religion, revolution, sex, truth
there’s a blogger mist arising
a fog thats thick as pitch
it carries words of wisdom
and its kicking up a bitch
its drifting over kentucky
and over in bangalore
its cleaving through bigotry
it will leave your head so sore
for its the voice of human reason
its the whisper of a new season
its the song of human treason
’cause gathered in their thousands
blacks and browns and whites
are laying down foundations
challenging wrongs and rights
there’s a girl in alabama
and a guy in tokyo
there’s a group in istanbul
and a woman in ohio
like a dragon breathing fire
or an angel that’s been kissed
it’s the sound of mankind moving
and its a sound hard to resist
see the poets now a gathering
and political activists too
linking hands across the globe
with a voice from me and you.
- Labels: free speech, freedom, poem
ALL AND ANY CENSORSHIP IS WRONG.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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- Labels: acceptance, censorship, free speech, freedom
- Labels: action, altruism, deception, fascism, freedom, government, human condition, liberation, revolution, truth
Civil disobedience
becomes a sacred duty
when the state has become
lawless or corrupt.
- Labels: corruption, deception, freedom, government, history, mahatma gandhi, power
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students, and the event further affected public opinionâat an already socially contentious timeâover the role of the United States in the Vietnam War. (read more)
“In a way I had never quite comprehended before,
I realized the role I could play in court
and the possibilities before me as a defendant.
I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor,
the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness
and democracy in a society that dishonoured those virtues.
I realized then and there that I could carry on
the fight even in the fortress of the enemy.”
“When the people
fear their government,
there is tyranny;
when the government
fears the people,
there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
- Labels: corporations, corruption, freedom, government, liberal, liberation, liberty