The Personal is Political. The Political is Personal.

 
what TiR was reading a year ago this month

All we got to say on this proposition is this: first, me and you is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better; second, nobody ain’t got no right to take away none of our rights; third, every man has got a right to live, to come and go as he pleases, and to have a good time whichever way he likes, so long as he don’t interfere with nobody else. That any government that don’t give a man them rights ain’t worth a damn . . . 

That whenever any government don’t do this, then the people have got a right to give it the bum’s rush and put in one that will take care of their interests. 

from H.L. Mencken's "translation" of the U.S. Declaration of Independence into "American" (1921)

Can't imagine what inspired digging up this one.





posted by TiR at 7:01 AM