revolutionaries – Field Grass

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revolution for all people

toni December 6, 2013

I began to prepare this post for images only. But I needed to know what lead to life in prison. About the first half of his life. An interesting paradox. An intensely tolerant, inclusive and compassionate man. Rightly celebrated as a great man of peace. He was also part of an armed revolutionary movement aimed

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Due process and equality

toni July 9, 2013

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868. It granted #citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the #United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person “#life, liberty or property, without #due process of law” or to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction

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The futility of revolutionaries without gardens

toni June 30, 2013

…the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone… Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words

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