Edward Carpenter Quotes
I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
Carpenter, Edward. My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes. George Allen & Unwin, 1916.
The demonstration was on August 8, 1643. There are several important aspects to this quotation. First, it shows that a peace movement is not only a creature of modern times. Second, that women were actively involved in political protests and demonstrations in 17th century England. Last, that the police of the time behaved as brutally as many police forces do in later centuries in putting down and surpressing demonstrations.
Reformers attempted to serve a New York Supreme Court writ on McKane to prohibit him from continuing corrupt election fraud practices.
He was referring to the Volunteers of Ireland who had politically organized.
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
Armenia has no tradition for freedom of speech and assembly, and little respect for Human Rights. This quotation illustrates what many of our American lawmakers were concerned with when they prohibited the military from being used domestically against civilians. When a national Guard Unit is called up, the Pentagon no longer controls the soldier but the State Governor and his State National Guard Commander have the command and control.
Edward Carpenter was an English Utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection. As a philosopher he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure. Here he described civilisation as a form of disease through which human societies pass.
