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A victorious line of march had been
prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the
banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have
carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands
of Scotland;
the Rhine
is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates,
and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into
the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps
the interpretation of the Koran would now be
taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits
might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of
the revelation of Muhammed. Oh weans! Oh weans! The morn's the Fair All men have stood for freedom ... For freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down.
Let reason rule the man and he dares not trespass against his fellow creatures, but will do as he would be done unto, For Reason tells him is thy neighbour hungry and naked today, do thou feed and clothe him, it may be thy case tomorrow and then he will be ready to help thee.
Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing lords over such as are under them, not knowing that their wives, children, servants, subjects are their fellow creatures, and hath an equal privilege to share them in the blessing of liberty.
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Bermagui Mystery: Lamont Young's boat discovered, October 10, 1880 (see below) |
For surely this particular property of mine and thine hath brought in all misery upon people. For first, it hath occasioned people to steal one from another. Secondly, it hath made laws to hang those that did steal. It tempts people to do an evil action and then kills them for doing it. Let all judge if this not be a great devil.
Gerrard Winstanley
The work we are going about is this, to dig up George Hill and the waste ground thereabouts and to sow corn, and to eat our bread together by the sweat of our brows ... that we may work in righteousness, and lay the foundation of making the earth a common treasury for all, both rich and poor.
Gerrard Winstanley; The True Leveller's Standard
Advanced, April 20, 1649
Every day poor people are forced to work for fourpence a day, though corn is dear. And yet the tithing priest stops their mouth and tells them that
'inward satisfaction of mind' was meant by the declaration 'the Poor shall inherit the earth'. I tell you, the Scripture is to be really and materially fulfilled. You jeer at the name
'Leveller'; I tell you Jesus Christ is the Head Leveller.
Gerrard Winstanley; ibid
The power of enclosing land and owning property was brought into the creation by your ancestors by the sword; which first did murder their fellow creatures, men, and after plunder or steal away their land, and left this land successively to you, their children. And therefore, though you did not kill or thieve, yet you hold that cursed thing in your hand by the power of the sword; and so you justify the wicked deeds of your fathers, and that sin of your fathers shall be visited upon the head of you and your children to the third and fourth generation, and longer too, till your bloody and thieving power be rooted out of the land.
Gerrard Winstanley
When this universal law of equity rises up in every man and woman, then none shall lay claim to any creature and say, This is mine, and that is yours. This is my work, that is yours. But everyone shall put their hands to till the earth and bring up cattle, and the blessing of the earth shall be common to all; when a man hath need of any corn or cattle, take from the next store-house he meets with. There shall be no buying and selling, no fairs or markets, but the whole earth shall be the common treasury for every man, for the earth is the Lord's ... When a man hath eat, and drink, and clothes, he hath enough. And all shall cheerfully put to their hands to make these things that are needful, one helping another. There shall be none lords over others, but everyone shall be a lord of himself, subject to the law of righteousness, reason and equity, which shall dwell and rule in him, which is the Lord.
Gerrard Winstanley; The New Law of Righteousness
… whosoever takes those Scriptures, and makes exposition upon them, from their imagination, and tells you that is the word of God, and hath seen nothing: That they are the false Christs and false Prophets … Men must speak their own experienced words, and must not speake thoughts.
Gerrard Winstanley Source
And here I end, having put my arm as far as my strength will go to advance righteousness: I have writ, I have acted, I have peace: and now I must wait to see the spirit do his own work in the hearts of others, and whether England shall be the first land, or some others, wherein truth shall sit down in triumph.
Gerrard Winstanley; A New-year's Gift for the Parliament and Army
The poorest man has as true a title, as just a right, to land as a rich man.
Gerrard Winstanley
Wheresoever there is a people united by common community of livelihood into oneness, it will be the strongest in the world, for they will be as one man to defend their inheritance.
Gerrard Winstanley
Theire
self-will is theire law, stand up now, stand up now,
Theire self-will is theire law, stand up now.
Since tyranny came in they count it now no sin
To make a gaol a gin, to starve poor men therein.
Stand up now, Diggers all.
The
gentrye are all round, stand up now, stand up now,
The gentrye are all round, stand up now.
The gentrye are all round, on each side they are found,
Theire wisdom's so profound, to cheat us of our ground
Stand up now, stand up now.
The
lawyers they conjoyne, stand up now, stand up now,
The lawyers they conjoyne, stand up now,
To arrest you they advise, such fury they devise,
The devill in them lies, & hath blinded both their eyes.
Stand up now, stand up now.
The
clergy they come in, stand up now, stand up now,
The clergy they come in, stand up now.
The clergy they come in, & say it is a sin
That we should now begin, our freedom for to win.
Stand up now, Diggers all.
The
tithes they yet will have, stand up now, stand up now,
The tithes they yet will have, stand up now.
The tithes they yet will have, & lawyers their fees crave,
& this they say is brave, to make the poor their slave.
Stand up now, Diggers all.
'Gainst
lawyers & 'gainst Priests, stand up now, stand up now,
'Gainst lawyers & 'gainst Priests stand up now.
For tyrants they are both even flatt againnst their oath,
To grant us they are loath free meat & drink & cloth.
Stand up now, Diggers all.
The
club is all their law, stand up now, stand up now,
The club is all their law, stand up now.
The club is all their law to keep men in awe,
But they no vision saw to maintain such a law.
Stand up now, Diggers all.
The
Cavaleers are foes, stand up now, stand up now,
The Cavaleers are foes, stand up now;
The Cavaleers are foes, themselves they do disclose
By verses not in prose to please the singing boyes.
Stand up now, Diggers all.
To
conquer them by love, come in now, come in now
To conquer them by love, come in now;
To conquer them by love, as itt does you behove,
For hee is King above, noe power is like to love,
Glory heere, Diggers all.
Diggers' ballad; from A
Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer
Digger
quotes
Attractive as the Diggers' manifesto was to many of the dispossessed, it found little favour with property owners.
George Monbiot,
English journalist and author; 'Still
Digging'
Last year, I joined campaigners seeking to erect a memorial to the Diggers on St George's Hill. We occupied a small corner of the estate and started negotiating to plant a stone close to the site on which the Diggers built their village. We stayed for a month, before being injuncted, with the memorial, off the property.
George Monbiot; ibid
"There's another queer old customer," said Waterloo,
"comes over, as punctual as the almanack ... at 11 o'clock on the 10th of
October."
Charles
Dickens, Reprinted Pieces
Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.
Thelonius Monk, American jazz pianist and composer, born on October 10, 1920
I repeat that we all stand before history. I and my colleagues are not the only ones on trial. Shell is on trial here, and it is as well that it is represented by counsel said to be holding a watching brief. The company has, indeed, ducked this particular trial, but its day will surely come and the lessons learned here may prove useful to it, for there is no doubt in my mind that the ecological war the company has waged in the delta will be called to question sooner than later and the crimes of that war be duly punished. The crime of the company's dirty wars against the Ogoni people will also be punished.
On trial also is the Nigerian nation, its present rulers and all those who assist them. I am not one of those who shy away from protesting injustice and oppression, arguing that they are expected of a military regime. The military do not act alone. They are supported by a gaggle of politicians, lawyers, judges, academics and businessmen, all of them hiding under the claim that they are only doing their duty, men and women too afraid to wash their pants of their urine.
We all stand on trial, my lord, for by our actions we have denigrated our country and jeopardised the future of our children. As we subscribe to the subnormal and accept double standards, as we lie and cheat openly, as we protect injustice and oppression, we empty our classrooms, degrade our hospitals, and make ourselves the slaves of those who subscribe to higher standards, who pursue the truth, and honour justice, freedom and hard work.
Statement made by environmental activist Ken Siro-Wiwa, born on
October 10, 1941, just before his execution on November 10, 1995
I harbour the hope that in founding the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, in empowering the Ogoni people to fearlessly confront their history and their tormentors non violently, that in encouraging the Ogoni people to a belief in their ability to revitalise their dying society, I have started a trend which will peacefully liberate many peoples in Africa and lead eventually to political and economic reform and social justice.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
I have come to the conclusion that
executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a
primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over
the responsibility for revenge to other people.
Albert
Pierrepoint (1905
- 1992),
Britain's most famous executioner of modern times; autobiography Executioner:
Pierrepoint. Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty
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day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (284th in leap years), with 82
days remaining.
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National
Day (Double Tenth Day), Republic of China (on Taiwan)
Double Tenth Day (pinyin: Shuāng
Shí Jié) is the national day of the Republic of China (now on Taiwan) and
celebrates the start of the Wuchang Uprising (October
10, 1911)
which led to the collapse of the Qing
dynasty. It is therefore also known in Chinese as National Celebration
Day (pinyin:
Guóqìng Rì).
The day commences with a military and public parade through the streets of Taipei and in front of the Presidential Office Building. Later in the day, the President of the Republic of China addresses the country and fireworks displays are held throughout the major cities of the island.
Outside Taiwan, Double Tenth Day is also celebrated by many Overseas Chinese communities, such as parades in Chinatowns of San Francisco, California and Chicago, Illinois. However, since the election of Chen Shui-bian as President of the ROC, a growing number of disgruntled Overseas Chinese people have increasingly identified themselves more with the People's Republic of China (PRC) and less with the ROC, somewhat lowering the profile of Double Tenth Day in these communities.
Before the sovereignty of Hong
Kong was transferred to the PRC in 1997,
many ROC supporters there would display patriotic and colorful flags
(mainly the national flag of ROC) to celebrate Double Tenth Day. Since the
transfer of sovereignty to the mainland, the anniversary of the Xinhai
Revolution continues to be celebrated, but not under the 'Double Tenth
Day' name. Much larger festivities now occur on on October
1, the National
Day of the PRC.
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Navratri
(Navaratri; Navratra) and Durga Puja, Hindu
(Oct 10 - 18,
2005)
A note about the dating of items in Wilson's Almanac
Navratri or Navratra is a Hindu festival of worship and dance. The word 'Navratri' literally means nine nights; Nav-Nine and Ratri-nights. The festival is celebrated for nine nights every year at the beginning of October although as the dates of the festival are according to the Hindu calendar (which is based on the Moon), the festival may be held for a day more or a day less depending on the calendar.
On the tenth day, the holiday of Dussehra, an effigy of Ravana is burnt to celebrate the victory of good (Rama) over evil.
These nine days are divided and devoted to the Trinity of God worshipped in a female form – three days for Durga (Goddess of Valor) three days for Lakshmi (Goddess of Wealth) and three days for Saraswati (Goddess of Knowledge and Art).
"Navaratri (nine nights) is one of the greatest Hindu festivals. It symbolises the triumph of good over evil. Navratri takes place at the beginning of October around harvest time and, as the name implies, this festival is celebrated for nine days.
"During this period, Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati are worshipped as three different manifestations of Shakti, or cosmic energy.
Durga, The Mother Goddess
"The festival is dedicated to Durga, the mother goddess who also represents power. Durga annihilated the demon Mahishasura after a relentless battle lasting nine days and nights.
The Motherhood of God"Navaratri is a festival in which God is adored as Mother. Hinduism is the only religion in the world which has emphasised to such an extent the motherhood of God.
"To celebrate a good harvest and to propitiate the nine planets, women also plant nine different kinds of food grain seeds in small containers during these nine days and then offer the young saplings to the goddess.
"During Navaratri, some devotees of Durga observe a fast and prayers are offered for the protection of health and property. A period of introspection and purification, Navaratri is traditionally an auspicious time for starting new ventures.
Celebrations"Navaratri is celebrated by communities getting together for dances and nightly feasts.
"In India, the most colourful and elaborate celebrations take part in Bengal, where huge idols of the goddess are worshipped.
Divine Power"In Gujarat painted earthern [sic] pots with water or a lamp inside symbolise the power of the goddess. The flame symbolises everlasting divine power whilst the fluid water is transitory.
An auspicious time
"Feasts of great variety and delicacy are offered to guests and family during the nine days.
"For women, Navaratri is a time for shopping for new clothes and new pots. It is an auspicious time to buy gold or jewellery and the gold markets are open late each night. Women dress elaborately each day for the puja or rituals and nightly dances." Source
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