Woody Guthrie Quotes – A man who was a unique individual.

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Woody is one of my heroes. He stood for fairness and justice. He stood against racism and supported the poor and exploited. Woody exemplified the Protest song that gave rise to Bob Dylan and the sixties rebellion against the establishment.

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Some men rob you with a six-gun — others rob you with a fountain pen.

The bankers and the politicians who support them have robbed the whole world. The people who hold power and pull the strings, who control the inequality and war in order to create profit, rob everyone. The system is corrupt. For someone to earn in 45 minutes more than an average man can earn from all the hard work of a full year is simply wrong.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed — and who try to make slaves of all of us — and they have their music and we have ours.

Those people who hold the power have created a system that takes from the bottom and gives to the top. The inequality is obscene. There has to be more fairness and justice.

The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

Music is a universal language. It transcends words.

There’s several ways of saying what’s on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain’t too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

Woody sung his truth – about justice and freedom – on picket lines – to the unions and people being exploited.

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.

We are all human and should be treated with compassion. Racism, sexism and inequality need addressing.

Love is the only medicine I believe in.

He sound like Jose Mujica the Uruguayan President who said that the only good addiction is love.

A folk song is what’s wrong and how to fix it or it could be
who’s hungry and where their mouth is or
who’s out of work and where the job is or
who’s broke and where the money is or
who’s carrying a gun and where the peace is.

These are the songs we need more of. We need songs about real issues – there’s enough soppy love songs.

You can’t write a good song about a whorehouse unless you’ve been in one.

Woody had not only been in the whorehouses, he’d been on the road, he’d been down and out. He knew what it was like.

The words are the important thing. Don’t worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you’ve got a new tune.

The words are the important thing.

Civil Rights – Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman – Murders – Tom Paxton Lyrics.

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Civil Rights Quotes – Equality, Freedom and Justice!! Something worth fighting for!

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All people are not equal and never will be. That is obvious. Some are much better at some things than others. Some are stronger, some are cleverer, some are faster, some are nicer. We can never all be the same.

But what is important is that, regardless of abilities, all people are of equal worth.

To place a value on a human being that relates to their race, gender, age, ability, disability, religion, political persuasion, creed, personality, culture, education, class, or preferences is simply wrong.

All people deserve equal opportunities. A system that penalises some requires opposing.

The greatest evil in our country today is…ignorance…We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.”
― Septima Poinsette Clark

Education is the only way we are going to build better societies and ultimately a better world. We need to dispel the tribal myths that create division. We need to devise systems that enable all people to reach their potential, that do not discriminate unfairly against certain groups and which value all people. We need to dispense with prejudice and intolerance.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in”
― Rosa Parks

Rosa was the spark that lit the tinder. It is hard to believe that such a short time ago, in the 1960s, the United States stringently practiced apartheid. The Southern States regarded negroes as of less worth than whites and created a policy of segregation where they were treated as second-class citizens. Blacks had separate facilities that were inferior to white – bus seats, drinking fountains, restaurants, schools …………  It was despicable. Rosa refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat. It started things.

As a white boy in England it was Bob Dylan who raised my awareness and sensibilities. I was passionate about equality, fairness and justice and I still am. The worth of a human being is the worth of their personality not their colour.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. Charles B. Rangel

They used lynchings, threats and violence to intimidate. They burnt down homes and churches, beat and shot activists and young kids. I well remember Emit Till, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers ……… It is a legacy of shame.

Young college students went down from the North to assist black people in registering to vote. I well remember the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. They were callously killed and thrown in a swamp. The Ku Klux Klan and the other white supremacist groups need outlawing and prosecuting or their continuing hate crime.

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains. Bill Cosby

Yes – unfortunately racism still remains with us. Things have improved but, as can be seen with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign, there is still a way to go. Black, white, yellow, brown and red need to work together to create a better, fairer, world.

In the ’60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn’t just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time. George Clooney

I remember those sixties days of idealism well. We thought we were going to change the world. I was only discussing on the blog recently how that has failed. Progress has been made regarding race and gender and there were the great environmental groups, but so many of those young idealists not only gave up on their ideals but jumped straight back in and became as bad, or even worse, that their predecessors. The problems of environment, gender and race are still there. We desperately need a new Bob Dylan and a new generation of idealists.

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. Carol Moseley Braun

I think that is true. There is hope.

That’s what he was saying, the civil rights movement – judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It’s by my character. Pam Grier

Martin Luther King was right! Let’s hope we can move to that! Much progress has been made. The road is long. It requires more effort.

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The most important document in the history of the world.

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This document is the most important document in the history of mankind. It merely needs enforcing now.

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 General Assembly resolution 217 A as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into almost 500 languages.

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Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.

(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.

(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.

(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.

(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Quote 10 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Article 18

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The UN Declaration of Human Rights is the closest I get to a Bible.

Fare thee well Muhammed Ali!!

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As a child I watched Cassius Clay boxing on TV and I was inspired by his audacity, by the way he boxed, his genius and also by the brilliance of his words. He worked the cameras and the audience. He worked his opponents and he was the greatest boxer in the history of the world. His lightness of foot, heaviness of punch, speed and deftness thrilled.

He changed his name to Muhammed Ali because he claimed that Cassius Clay was his slave name and he was no slave.

He refused to fight in Vietnam because he had no argument with the Vietnamese people, had a moral obligation not to kill, and thought that the war was racist; that it was disproportionately sending poor blacks and not rich whites. They stripped him of his championship and locked him up. They prevented him from fighting.

The establishment did not like him becoming a Muslim. They did not like him speaking out against the civil rights violations, or the fighting of an unjust war. They tried everything to shut him up.

But Muhammed refused to shut up. He championed civil rights issues and stood up for his principles.

I salute all that he stood for. He was a great man, not so much because of his genius in the ring, but because of his principles and actions outside it.

He said he wanted to leave this world having done more good than harm. I thibnk he achieved that.

He’s a role model for me!!

Goodbye Muhammed Ali!!

Quote 10 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Article 18

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‘Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.’
The UN Declaration is my bible. It is what I stand for. There is no better writing on the planet.
What is written above should be constantly repeated on a loud tape loop to the fascist scum who have hacked to death bloggers, gays, professors, apostates, secular speakers and religious minorities. Fifty years minimum. That should be their punishment for inhuman barbarity.
Any religion that breaches the above should be eradicated by force.
I nominate the following to take up the challenge of providing up to three quotes a day for three days:Nadine – who wants to start a revolution

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Plato who writes divine poetry, has a beautiful voice, does great jazz and is a genius :

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and Rich and Lou who make sublime music both as a duo and in a band (The Electric Company), take brilliant award winning photos and grow auriculars!

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They are not conventional poetry books. They are like you find on my blog with a page of explanatory prose followed by the poem. The prose is as important as the poem to me.

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Quote 8 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Article 1

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‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.’

I believe in the rights of all people as laid out in the greatest document produced by mankind. It sets out the rights of individuals in a way that would transform the world if properly implemented.

My dream is to see a world without nations, with one humanity and a global government that enforces the principles set out in this document.

This is the antithesis of all that fascists, tyrants and fundamentalists like ISIS stand for.

I nominate the following to take up the challenge of providing up to three quotes a day for three days:

Nadine – who wants to start a revolution

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Plato who writes divine poetry, has a beautiful voice, does great jazz and is a genius :

http://www.platosgroove.com/

and Rich and Lou who make sublime music both as a duo and in a band (The Electric Company), take brilliant award winning photos and grow auriculars!

Home

These are my six books of poetry. They are available as paperback or on Kindle from Amazon – all for under £5 for a paperback. You could buy the whole lot for just £27.62!!

They are not conventional poetry books. They are like you find on my blog with a page of explanatory prose followed by the poem. The prose is as important as the poem to me.

Codas, Cadence and Clues – £4.97

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Codas-Cadence-Clues-Opher-Goodwin/dp/1530754453/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460847766&sr=1-4&keywords=opher+goodwin

Stanzas and Stances – £5.59

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Poems and Peons – £4.33

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Rhymes and Reasons – £3.98

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Prose, Cons and Poetry – £4.60

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Vice and Verse – £4.15

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I am Malala – Education for girls!!!

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I have just returned from watching the film about the life of Malala Yousafzai. What a brave girl! She deserved the Nobel peace prize! Her father did too!

The Taliban preach a brand of Islam that I find disgusting. They preach intolerance, fundamentalism that is the most extreme fascism.

Islam means peace. For the Taliban it means power. They rule with the gun and the bomb. They believe females are second-class citizens. They shoot all who speak against them. They blow up schools. They terrify and frighten.

That is not religion. That is politics.

They are scum.

Malala, like her father, spoke up for the rights of women. The Taliban threatened them. She was cold-bloodedly shot in the head.

Is there a name for an armed man who shoots a young teenage girl in the head? I can think of a number. Coward comes to mind as one of the more printable ones.

If we do not speak out against inequality, intolerance and injustice then the fascist scum win.

It takes brave people like Malala to stand up to fascist thugs.

My only criticism was her clothing. While her father and brother were free to wear whatever they wanted seemingly Malala was not. She was consigned to medieval costume. Nice if its an option – obnoxious if it is enforced, expected or pressured. Until she is free to wear whatever she wants and feels comfortable to do so – like the males in her society – there is no equality. I see headscarves, burqas and hijabs as misogyny.

Thank you Malala. I’m now going to read your book.

I loved what you said about education – one teacher – one pen – is mightier than all the oppressive doctrine of fascist scum.

The Taliban, A Qaeda, Boko Haram and the rest of the scum are more terrified of education than they are of bullets and bombs. Education enables people to ask questions. No tyranny or religious dogma can survive in the face of questions.

Educating girls will make the world a better place!

Mass Migration – The reasons explained and the terrible reality.

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The reasons are threefold:

  • Inequality – creating starvation and extreme poverty – 3 billion earn less than $2 a day
  • Overpopulation – creating unemployment and terrible living conditions
  • War – displacing millions of people and causing misery

The solutions are simple:

  • Education – educated people do not multiply at such high rates
  • Equality – address the grotesque systems that create trillionaires and paupers
  • Overpopulation policies – that actively reduce numbers – taxation, education, incentives, unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, old age pensions
  • Peace – It may be novel but how about diplomacy, sanctions and putting an end to political power posturing, nationalism and religious superstition? Global government with the enforcement of the UN charter of Human Rights would be good for a start.

It can be done if there’s a way. On this blog I’ve got friends all over the world. We may argue, we may disagree but we are all basically friendly, caring human beings with the same empathy and compassion.

Build a positive zeitgeist – Change the World!