“Rest in Joy”
Author: historyiswhat
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Malaya – Albert Meltzer (1948)
“… it is unfortunately true that colonisation and humanitarianism can never mix, and the only way the coloniser has ever established himself is by quickfire and ruthless wiping out, such as Andrew Jackson undertook.”
“… I sold my individuality, part of my life, my skill with arms; and also was expected to commit murder if asked to do so (Palestine Rebellion, 1936).”
“The people of Lebanon did not accept this ruthless display of power without active protests. There were demonstrations in the principal towns and in many of the villages.”
“The masses don’t want crumbs from the loaded tables of the rich, but what is their natural right. They should take it whenever they have an opportunity.”
“And the propertyless class — the wage-earners are compelled by competition to sell their labor themselves to the lowest bidder, or starve.”
“There was a clear atmosphere, a splendid dawn like an aurora of deliverance. We knew well though we died, Paris would rise.”
“The foul deed was done! Our comrades sleep the sleep which knows no awakening, but the grand cause for which they died is not asleep nor dead…”
“It is a return to first principles; for were not the land, the water, the light all free before governments took shape and form?”
“… ‘equal rights under the law’ means no more nor less than the rascality necessary to take an advantage and the cowardly brutality necessary to keep it.”
