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The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes. The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression of that will by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
Don't argue with me on this
unless you're itchin' for a brick. These
privileged classes of the people have an enduring hatred for me, and I
am glad they have. I am a friend not only of freedom in all things,
and in every form, but also for equality and justice as well. These
cannot be inaugurated except through revolution. I am denounced as
desiring to precipitate revolution. I acknowledge it. I am for
revolution, if to get equality and justice it is required. She
seemed at moments like one possessed, and the eloquence which poured
from her lips in reckless torrents swept through the souls of the
multitude in a way which caused them to burst, every now and then,
with uproarious enthusiasm. A moment after I entered there was one of
these spiritual explosions, which brought her to a brief pause, and
the first sentence I heard was her exclamation, in loud, clear tone:
"Who will dare to attempt to unlock the luminous portals of the
future with the rusty key of the past?" |
Libra |
Victoria Claflin Woodhull Source
The spirits have entrusted me with a mission, I have done
and shall do everything necessary to complete it.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull; she
believed she had a "spirit guide", Demosthenes Source
… prostitutes are free women compared to the slavery of the poor wife!
Victoria Claflin Woodhull Source
If a writer is silent, he is lying.
Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel Prize-winning Czech poet and journalist, born on September 23, 1901
Music was one of my parts ... Like my blood. It was a force already with me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.
Ray Charles, American singer and musician, born on September 23, 1930
Music is nothing separate from me. It is me ... You'd have to remove the music surgically.
Ray Charles
Rock 'n' roll, man, it changed my life. It was like The Voice of America, the real America coming into your home. It was the liberating thing, the out. Once I found the guitar, I had the key to the highway.
Bruce Springsteen, American singer/songwriter, born on September 23, 1949 (1978)
Rock 'n' roll is a means of erasing the past. You have to want to get away from something pretty bad. I wanted to perform. I wanted to travel. I wanted to feel free.
Bruce Springsteen (1981)
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't really know why.
Bruce Springsteen (1984)
Rock 'n' roll has been everything to me. The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
Bruce Springsteen (1984)
Before rock 'n' roll, I didn't have any purpose. I tried to play football and baseball and all those things and I just didn't fit. I was running through a maze. It was never a hobby. It was a reason to live. It was the only one I had. It was kind of life or death.
Bruce Springsteen (1985)
If you grew up in my generation part of the dream of rock 'n' roll was eternal youth, the endless Saturday night.
Bruce Springsteen (1987)
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Augustes, or Augustalia, Roman Empire, in
honour of Caesar Augustus (b.
September 23, 63 BCE)
"AUGUSTA/LES (sc. ludi, also called Augustalia, sc. certamina, ludicra, and by the Greek writers and in Greek inscriptions, Se/basta, Seba/sima, Au)gousta/lia), were games celebrated in honour of Augustus, at Rome and in other parts of the Roman empire. After the battle of Actium, a quinquennial festival (panh/gurij pentethri/j) was instituted; and the birthday (gene/qlia) of Augustus, as well as that on which the victory was announced at Rome, were regarded as festival days (Dion Cass. li.19). In the provinces, also, in addition to temples and altars, quinquennial games were instituted in almost every town (Suet. Aug. 59). The Roman equites were accustomed of their own accord to celebrate the birthday of Augustus in every alternate year (Suet. Aug. 57); and the praetors, before any decree had been passed for the purpose, were also in the habit of exhibiting games every year in honour of Augustus (Dion Cass. liv.26, 30). It was not, however, till B.C. 11, that the festival on the birth-day of Augustus was formally established by a decree of the senate (Dion Cass. liv.34), and it is this festival which is usually meant when the Augustales or Augustalia are mentioned. It was celebrated IV Id. Octobr. At the death of Augustus, this festival assumed a more solemn character, was added to the Fasti, and celebrated to his honour as a god (Tac. Ann. i.13; Dion Cass. lvi.46). Hence, Tacitus speaks of it as first established in the reign of Tiberius (Ann. i.54). It was henceforth exhibited annually in the circus, at first by the tribunes of the plebs, at the commencement of the reign of Tiberius, but afterwards by the praetor peregrinus (Tac. Ann. i.15; Dion Cass. lvi.46). These games continued to be exhibited in the time of Dion Cassius, that is, about A.D. 230 (liv.34).
"The augustales, or augustalia, at Neapolis (Naples), were celebrated with great splendour. They were instituted in the lifetime of Augustus (Suet. Aug. 98), and were celebrated every five years. According to Strabo (v. p246), who speaks of these games without mentioning their name, they rivalled the most magnificent of the Grecian festivals. They consisted of gymnastic and musical contests, and lasted for several days. At these games the Emperor Claudius brought forward a Greek comedy, and received the prize (Suet. Claud. 11; compare Dion Cass. lx.6).
"Augustalia
(Se/basta) were also celebrated at Alexandria,
as appears from an inscription in Grüter (316.2); and in this city there
was a magnificent temple to Augustus (Sebastei=on,
Augustale). We find mention of augustalia in numerous other places, as Pergamus,
Nicomedia, &c."
William
Smith
(Dictionary
of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1875) Source
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