Political Protest Quotes
Those landlords who had killed peasants were sometimes executed as prior to the Peasant Uprising, there was no law enforcement against landlords in rural areas like Hunan. In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report. Many years later when Mao was a major revolutionary leader, the landlords were often executed and not just humiliated.
When the Republican leadership in 2008 stated that the Republican’s primary objective was to prevent the re-election of Barack Obama, it was not the first time that American politicians admitted that their major objective was to cripple an administration. This quotation shows a very early example. See {592642} for Adams view of Senator Randolph.
Vladimir Lenin
Lincoln had instituted the first draft in American History and it was terribly resented by many Americans. The draft laws allowed the wealthy and upper middle class to avoid service by paying a $300 fee of hiring a substitute just like in the Vietnam War the upper classes could get College Draft deferments. The mob led mostly by poor Irish, began by protesting the draft; then they attacked the mansions and houses of the wealthy; and then they went after Blacks. The Irish poor feared large numbers of Negroes coming out of slavery and competing for their jobs and lowering the prevailing wages. Blacks were beaten and lynched and 5,000 almost half of the then Negro population were driven to Brooklyn, New Jersey and the New York suburbs. It was the worst riot in United States History.
