Tommy Chong Quotes
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
Rothschild, Matthew. "Tommy Chong." The Progressive, vol. 70, no. 8, Aug. 2006, pp. 31-35.
The two were in the Dublin suburbs when others seized the Dublin Post Office and began the Easter Uprising without their knowledge. They were desperate to get to Downtown Dublin and have a role in the activities and get arrested with the more militant leaders.
His strategy was to fill the jails of Birmingham, and asked the young people to help. The next days saw virtually all the Birmingham high school students our of school and in the streets protesting which was then against the un-Constitutional laws of Birmingham and Alabama. The students were arrested by the droves and the white authorities, believing that they were being firm against “radical lawbreakers”, fell into the trap, and became a travesty to most of the country and the rest of the world and the hundreds of jailed students beaten and assaulted raised the consciousness of whites as well as Blacks.
The first Russian Revolutionary Newspaper for Workers. Volodarsky shot to the top of the early revolutionary leadership. Most of the early Russian leaders were intellectuals and theoreticians. Valodarsky had much organizing experience and could communicate well with workers having been active in the Ladies Garment Workers Union and the American Socialist Party. His practical American approach was just what was needed and he became a key member of the leadership. He was so instrumental in the Bolshevik leadership that he was targeted for assassination along with Lenin and Uritsky. Lenin was only wounded. The others died. Goldstein was only 27 years old. Russia named bridges, schools and warships after him.
Thomas B. Kin Chong is a Canadian-American actor, writer, director, musician, cannabis rights activist and comedian. He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s.
