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01/05/2008 15:55:00
 
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>>>The international labor day is today.
>>>
>>>All the best to anyone who feels like being a worker (don't know whether to include all those non-workers, called "employee", "associate", "help", "staff"...).
>>
>>Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
>>Arise, you wretched of the earth!
>>For justice thunders condemnation:
>>A better world's in birth!
>>No more tradition's chains shall bind us,
>>Arise you slaves, no more in thrall!
>>The earth shall rise on new foundations:
>>We have been nought, we shall be all!
>>
>> 'Tis the final conflict,
>> Let each stand in his place.
>> The international soviet
>> Shall be the human race
>> 'Tis the final conflict,
>> Let each stand in his place.
>> The international working class
>> Shall be the human race
>>
>>We want no condescending saviors
>>To rule us from their judgment hall,
>>We workers ask not for their favors
>>Let us consult for all:
>>To make the thief disgorge his booty
>>To free the spirit from its cell,
>>We must ourselves decide our duty,
>>We must decide, and do it well.
>>
>> 'Tis the final conflict,
>> Let each stand in his place.
>> The international soviet
>> Shall be the human race
>> 'Tis the final conflict,
>> Let each stand in his place.
>> The international working class
>> Shall be the human race
>>
>>Deserved a better song :
>>
>>
>>Do you hear the people sing?
>>Singing a song of angry men?
>>It is the music of a people
>>Who will not be slaves again!
>>When the beating of your heart
>>Echoes the beating of the drums
>>There is a life about to start
>>When tomorrow comes!
>>
>>
>>Will you join in our crusade?
>>Who will be strong and stand with me?
>>Beyond the barricade
>>Is there a world you long to see?
>>
>>Then join in the fight
>>That will give you the right to be free!
>>
>>
>>Do you hear the people sing?
>>Singing a song of angry men?
>>It is the music of a people
>>Who will not be slaves again!
>>When the beating of your heart
>>Echoes the beating of the drums
>>There is a life about to start
>>When tomorrow comes!
>>
>>
>>Will you give all you can give
>>So that our banner may advance
>>Some will fall and some will live
>>Will you stand up and take your chance?
>>The blood of the martyrs
>>Will water the meadows of France!
>>
>>Do you hear the people sing?
>>Singing a song of angry men?
>>It is the music of a people
>>Who will not be slaves again!
>>When the beating of your heart
>>Echoes the beating of the drums
>>There is a life about to start
>>When tomorrow comes!
>
>
>"The Internationale", isn't it? I hope you at least had to cut and paste <g>.

What?!? No, I'd been humming it to myself all morning. <s>

(the second one, of course, the closing of Act 1 of Les Miserables )


Charles Hankey

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin

Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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