Thanks4Giving

Thanksgiving came across with the English settlers as the harvest festival. Essentially it is a holiday to give thanks for what you've got.

In that context it is a good time to give those who do not or will not have...

FREEDOM | FOOD | IMMUNIZATION | LIBERTY | AN EARTH

do not say later

do not say manana

do not say maybe

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

-John F. Kennedy

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"The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with."

-Eleanor Holmes Norton

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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

-Edward R. Murrow:

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."

-Jimi Hendrix

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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

-William Hazlitt

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It was believed that the corn spirit lived amongst the crop, and the harvest made it effectively homeless. Therefore, hollow shapes were fashioned from the last sheaf of wheat or other cereal crop. The corn spirit would then spend the winter in their homes until the "corn dolly" was ploughed into the first furrow of the new season. "Dolly" is a corruption of "idol

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

-Voltaire