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Thomas Paine
b. 1-29-1737; Thetford, Norfolk, England
d. 6-8-1809; NYC
Thomas Paine, considered a Founding Father in the American Revolution, was a radical political writer and freethinker.
Thomas Paine was indicted on charges of treason (in Britain) with his essay, The Rights of Man , supporting independence of the colonists in North America and attacking Christianity as a “pious fraud,“ calling it “repugnant to reason.” In Paine's The Age of Reason, clergy in America and Britain criticized his work as dangerous to the souls of the uneducated.
FYI - Paine, who promoted Deism - a religious expression of scientific rationalism - was acquainted with William Blake the English mystic, artist and poet.
Thomas Paine quotes ~
• “Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”
• “There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required.”
• “It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
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Christabel Pankhurst DBE
b. 9-22-1880; Manchester, England
d. 2-13-1958; Los Angeles, CA
Christabel Pankhurst, along with her mother Emmeline, sisters Sylvia and Adela, and others, founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. As a suffragette she was jailed and participated in a hunger strike. Later in life, Pankhurst, who was educated as a lawyer, became an evangelist lecturing on the Second Coming.
Christabel Pankhurst quotes ~
• “Ability is sexless.”
• “It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.”
• “Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.”
Emmeline Pankhurst quote ~
• “...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.” - WSPU, England, 1908
• Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
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Rosa Parks
b. 2-4-1913; Tuskegee, Alabama
d. 10-24-2005; Detroit, MI
"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."
Described by some as “the mother of the civil rights movement,” Rosa Parks is best known for being arrested for refusing to giver her seat to a white man on a racially segregated Montgomery, AL, bus. Her action led to a successful 380-day boycott of Montgomery buses and a Supreme Court ruling against segregation.
• more Rosa Parks posters
• more Black History Pioneers posters
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Alan Paton
b. 1-11-1903; Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa
d. 4-12-1988; Botha's Hill
Alan Paton, a South African anti-apartheid activist, is best remembered as the author of Cry, The Beloved Country. He was friends with author Laurens van der Post.
Alan Paton quotes ~
• “There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.”
• “When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.”
• “But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.”
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Alice Paul
b. 1-11-1885; New Jersey
d. 7-9-1977
Alice Paul, along with Lucy Burns and others, successfully used tactics like demonstrations, parades, mass meetings, picketing, suffrage watch fires, and hunger strikes that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Paul was also the author of the original 1923 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that did not get to the Senate until 1972.
Alice Paul quotes:
• “I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”
• “There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”
• “It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.”
• Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004), DVD
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Linus Pauling
b. 2-28-1901; Portland, Oregon
d. 8-19-1994; Big Sur, CA
Linus Pauling, chemist and peace campaigner advocating nuclear disarmament was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes that were not shared.
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Octavio Paz
b. 3-31-1914; Mexico City, Mexico
d. 4-19-1998
Octavio Paz was the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient for “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.”
Octavio Paz, like his father and grandfather, was a writer who stood up for the rights of poor people and Indians, to the point that he resigned his ambassadorship to India in protest when Mexican police killed protesting students in 1968.
Octavio Paz's poetry, which he began publishing while still in his teens, combines European, Asian, and African ideas with mystical New World images. His book-length poem Sun Stone is based on an ancient stone Aztec calendar and is made up of 584 lines, one for each day in the calendar. His poetry and his essays have been translated into 30 languages.
In essays such as “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” he wrote about Mexico's past and its future. He also wrote a biography about the 17th-century writer and philosopher Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Octavio Paz quotes ~
• “There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.”
• “The sterility of the bourgeois world will end in suicide or a new form of creative participation. This is the “theme of our times,” in Ortega y Gassett's phrase; it is the substance of our dreams and the meaning of our acts.” The Labyrinth of Solitude (1961)
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