Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Studs: I Never Met a Petition I Didn’t Like

Filed under: Heroes — by Will Kirkland @ 8:02 am
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Recommended by a good friend and I am happy to pass it on to all of you. The late Studs Terkel talks about being blacklisted and the joys of being against lynching, against poll taxes, signing petitions for peace. Make sure you listen through to his Mahalia Jackson story.

Studs Terkel

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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison, 1795

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