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English-born American Political Activist, Philosopher, Political Theorist, and Revolutionary
: An English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776?1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain, hitherto an unpopular cause. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #14 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Anarchism and Bottom-Up Organization
“[To the Politician:] You talk of justice and benevolence, but you begin at the wrong end. The defenders of your country, and the deplorable state of the poor, are objects of prior consideration to priests and bells and gaudy processions.”
Source: "Worship and Church Bells," by Thomas Paine, a letter to Camille Jordan, printed in Paris in the summer of 1797 with the title: "Lettre de Thomas Paine sur les Cultes. A Paris, Imprimerie- Librairie du Cercle-Social, rue du Theatre-Fran-caise No. 4. 1797."
"Worship and Church Bells," by Thomas Paine, a letter to Camille Jordan, printed in Paris in the summer of 1797 with the title: "Lettre de Thomas Paine sur les Cultes. A Paris, Imprimerie- Librairie du Cercle-Social, rue du Theatre-Fran-caise No. 4. 1797."
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