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1. Abraham Lincoln: “Our fathers brought forth a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” |
2. Alan Turing: The father of modern computing. Cracked Nazi codes at Bletchley Park, shortening World War II by around two years. … |
3. Albert Camus: “It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with common decency.” |
4. Alexander Hamilton: “A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.” |
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5. Anarchism |
6. The Anarchists of Chicago |
7. Aneurin Bevan: “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.” |
8. ‘Our Annie’: Annie Kenney (1879-1953), the working-class suffragette from Springhead, Oldham, author of ‘Memories of a Militant’. |
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9. Arthur Miller: “Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.” |
10. The Battle of Cable Street |
11. Benjamin Franklin: “They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” |
12. Benjamin Lay (1682-1759): Born in England, he moved to America where, appalled by the mis-treatment of black slaves, he became one of the first white abolitionists …” |
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13. Bugler Girl: “Women’s Suffrage, March and Mass Meeting, Saturday, June 13th, 1908” |
14. Carbon Footprint: “Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.” W.B. Yeats |
15. Charles Darwin: “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” |
16: Charles Dickens: “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.” |
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17. Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre): “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will.” |
18. Chartist Demonstration!! “PEACE and ORDER is our MOTTO! …” |
19. Che Guevara: “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” |
20. Christina Rossetti: “For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.” |
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21. Clement Attlee: “Our people should be citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.” |
22. C.L.R. James: “When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.” |
23. Confucius: “To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.” |
24. Constance Markievicz (1868-1927): Irish revolutionary nationalist, politician, suffragette and socialist … |
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25. The Cooperative Commonwealth: The World for the Workers by Walter Crane |
26. The Declaration of Arbroath (1320): “It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” |
27. Desmond Tutu: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” |
28. Easter Rising 1916 |
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29. Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” |
30. Albert Einstein: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” |
31. Eleanor Marx (1855-1898): Biographer (and daughter) of Karl Marx, life-long socialist, founded the Socialist League … |
32. Cover of The Suffragette: “In honour and in loving, reverent memory of Emily Wilding Davison.” |
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33. Emma Goldman: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” |
34. Emmeline Pankhurst: “We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” |
35. Enclosure: “The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. …” |
36. John Donne: “No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.” |
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37. Oscar Wilde: “The English country gentleman galloping after a fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.” |
38. Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much …” |
39. General Strike, 1926 |
40. George Bernard Shaw (Back to Methuselah): “You see things; and you say – Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say – Why not?” |