jerrybature_ on Nostr: “O! Ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny but the tyrant, ...

“O! Ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted around the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her as a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.”

— the unknown, impecunious pamphleteer Tom Paine