Comments on: The Most Dangerous Song in the World (Len Wallace) http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/05/04/456/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rick Hesch http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/05/04/456/#comment-2131 Rick Hesch Mon, 08 May 2006 13:37:51 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/05/04/456/#comment-2131 <p>We also owe the revolutionary French for "La Marseillaise" We should heed the words of Irish rebel James Connolly, he who was propped up on a hospital bed so he could be executed by British firing squad:</p> <p>"No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes, the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant, singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinct marks of a popular revolutionary movement; it is a dogma of a few, and not the faith of the multitude".-- James Connolly, 1907</p> We also owe the revolutionary French for “La Marseillaise” We should heed the words of Irish rebel James Connolly, he who was propped up on a hospital bed so he could be executed by British firing squad:

“No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes, the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant, singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinct marks of a popular revolutionary movement; it is a dogma of a few, and not the faith of the multitude”.– James Connolly, 1907

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