WHAT
OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT STONES AND REBELLION
William Shakespeare:
And
this our life exempt from public haunt,
Finds
tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons
in stones, and good in everything.
I
would not change it.
As
You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1
This
earth shall have a feeling, and these stones
Prove
armed soldiers, ere her native king
Shall
falter under foul rebellion’s arms!
King
Richard the Second, Act 3, Scene 2
It
will have blood; they say blood will have blood
Stones
have been known to move, and trees to speak
Augurs . . . .
Macbeth,
Act 3, Scene 4
O,
mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In
herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities . . .
Romeo
and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
Abraham
Lincoln:
This
country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
they can
exercise their constitutional right of amending it,
or their
revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
First
Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861
Wilfrid
Laurier:
What
is hateful is not rebellion, it is the despotism that induces that
rebellion;
what
is hateful are not rebels but the men who, having the enjoyment of
power,
do
not discharge the duties of power; those men who when they are asked
for a loaf,
give
a stone.
House
of Commons, 16 March 1886,
following
the execution of Louis Riel
William
Lyon Mackenzie King:
Our
generation regards the men of 1837, not as rebels, but as martyrs for
Canadian freedom
Niagara Falls, Ontario, 18 June 1938
House
of Commons Resolution:
In
the opinion of this House, the Government should officially
recognize
the historical contribution of the Patriots of Lower Canada
and
the Reformers of Upper Canada to the establishment of a system of
responsible
democratic government.
House
of Commons, 13 December 1994