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Set garlic and beans at St Edmund the King
I am a woman, but I am also the mistress of a large family. And
though the superior charge of the souls contained in it lies upon
you, yet in your long absence I cannot but look upon every soul you
leave under my charge as a talent committed to me under a trust. I
am not a man nor a minister, yet as a mother and a mistress I felt I
ought to do more than I had yet done. I resolved to begin with my
own children; in which I observe, the following method: I take such
a proportion of time as I can spare every night to discourse with
each child apart. On Monday I talk with Molly, on Tuesday with
Hetty, Wednesday with Nancy, Thursday with Jacky, Friday with Patty,
Saturday with Charles. |
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After god had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which he made the SCAB ...
A SCAB is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue ...
When a SCAB comes down the street, men turn their backs, angels weep in heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of Hell to keep him out ...
Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared to a SCAB. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A SCAB has not.
Jack London (not wanting to mince words); the term 'scab' in this sense was first used on November 20, 1816
Some men see things as they are and ask "Why?". I dream of things that never were and ask
"Why not?".
US Senator Robert Kennedy, born on November 20, 1925 , according to his brother
Edward Kennedy; paraphrasing
George Bernard Shaw
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage
and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for
an ideal, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of
hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy
and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the
mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Kennedy;
June 6, 1966
at University of Cape Town, South Africa on its 'Day of Affirmation'
Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on
youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not
yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who
cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security
to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress.
This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of
mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of
courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
Robert Kennedy; ibid
The problem of power is how to achieve its
responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get
men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert Kennedy; 'I Remember, I Believe', The Pursuit of Justice (1964)
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of
their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society.
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world
that yields most painfully to change.
Robert Kennedy
More quotes by Robert Kennedy from Wikiquote
Durruti, whom I saw but a month ago, lost his life in the street-battles of Madrid. My previous knowledge of this stormy petrel of the Anarchist and revolutionary movement in Spain was merely from reading about him. On my arrival in Barcelona I learned many fascinating stories of Durruti and his column. They made me eager to go to the Aragon front, where he was the leading spirit of the brave and valiant militias, fighting against fascism ...
A great man this Anarchist Durruti, a born leader and teacher of men, thoughtful and tender comrade all in one. And now Durruti is dead. His great heart beats no more. His powerful body felled down like a giant tree. And yet, and yet--Durruti is not dead. The hundreds of thousands that turned out Sunday, November 22nd, 1936, to pay Durruti their last tribute have testified to that ...
No, Durruti is not dead. The fires of his flaming spirit lighted in all who knew and loved him, can never be extinguished. Already the masses have lifted high the torch that fell from Durruti's hand. Triumphantly they are carrying it before them on the path Durruti had blazoned for many years. The path that leads to the highest summit of Durruti's ideal. This ideal was Anarchism--the grand passion of Durruti's life. He had served it utterly. He remained faithful to it until his last breath ...
No, Durruti is not dead! He is more alive than living. His glorious example will now be emulated by all the Catalan workers and peasants, by all the oppressed and disinherited. The memory of Durruti's courage and fortitude will spur them on to great deeds until fascism has been slain. Then the real work will begin--the work on the new social structure of human value, justice and freedom.
Emma
Goldman; 'Durruti
is Dead, Yet Living'; Buenaventura
Durruti y Domingo died on November 20, 1936
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Universal Children's
Day (UN)
In 1954, the
United Nations General Assembly recommended (in Resolution 836 - IX) that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children, and of activity promoting the welfare of the world's children,
and that the observance of Universal Children's Day should be used for a concrete and effective expression of the support of
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Most countries celebrate Universal Children's Day on November 20 - the date marking the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Australia celebrates Universal Children's Day on the fourth Wednesday in October.
Pictured above, left to right: Two of my grandchildren, Briar and Bailey, and one of my sons, Remy, 2002 (I think)
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