“A crafty nightrunner died of late,
And found himself at Bilairy’s Gate.
He stood outside and refused to knock
Because he meant to pick the lock.”
Source: Shadows Return
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Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Mir ist verspert der sælden tor<br>dâ stên ich als ein weise vor<br>mich hilfet niht swaz ich dar an geklopfe. <br class="br">"Mir ist verspert der sælden tor", line 1; translation by Tim Chilcott. http://colecizj.easyvserver.com/pgvb3901.htm
Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist
Sam, Sam, Pick Oop Tha' Musket
Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
On Stephen Harper, after the Governor General announced Parliament was prorogued, Dec. 4, 2008[citation needed]
Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist
Sam, Sam, Pick Oop Tha' Musket
“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Address on Courage (1965)
Context: Deep down in our nonviolent creed is the conviction that there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they’re worth dying for. And if a man happens to be 36 years old, as I happen to be, and some great truth stands before the door of his life, some great opportunity to stand up for that which is right, he’s afraid his home will get burned, or he’s afraid that he will lose his job, or he’s afraid that he will get shot or beat down by state troopers. He may go on and live until he’s 80, but he’s just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80. And the cessation of breathing in his life is merely the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. He died...
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
So we're going to stand up right here amid horses. We're going to stand up right here, in Alabama, amid the billy-clubs. We're going to stand up right here in Alabama amid police dogs, if they have them. We're going to stand up amid tear gas! We're going to stand up amid anything they can muster up, letting the world know that we are determined to be free!
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 97
“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa
Source: Green Hills of Africa