I enjoyed this Thank You. I seem to have come full circle Tony Benn was my MP growing up and like he said I was never taught about Thomas Paine but have just discovered him and in that discovery I found this interview with Tony Benn.
Interesting thatTony Ben here as often, roots the idea of Human Rights in the Bible.( approx 3 mins) The historian Tom Holland is now doing much the same.
Tony meant well, HOWEVER ... "Tom Paine was a forgotten man at his death." This is the trope promoted by Paine's enemies and and now parroted in ignorance by the historically deficient and intentionally by those who use his name to promote their personal aggrandizement. Mark my words carefully: virtually ALL PEOPLE die alone or if fortunate in the company of a few close friends, as in the case of Paine. Far from "forgotten," his name and his works continued to be the bugbear and target of priests, parsons, and political reactionaries for the next 200 years. He was condemned from the pulpit and commemorated by the friends of democracy and equality. Andrew Jackson wrote c. 1830s that ""Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty." Forgotten ? That claim should be forgotten. It never happened -- not once -- and ought not be repeated by people, however well-meaning, who pretend to know the history.
@@briandelaney9710 "He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. " Thomas Paine, RIGHTS OF MAN
Mr Benn one of life's genuine human beings. He didn't have to do anything to help the poor but he did. RIP beautiful soul thanks for caring 🙏 🌹
I enjoyed this Thank You. I seem to have come full circle Tony Benn was my MP growing up and like he said I was never taught about Thomas Paine but have just discovered him and in that discovery I found this interview with Tony Benn.
Very neat!
Interesting thatTony Ben here as often, roots the idea of Human Rights in the Bible.( approx 3 mins) The historian Tom Holland is now doing much the same.
Tony meant well, HOWEVER ... "Tom Paine was a forgotten man at his death." This is the trope promoted by Paine's enemies and and now parroted in ignorance by the historically deficient and intentionally by those who use his name to promote their personal aggrandizement. Mark my words carefully: virtually ALL PEOPLE die alone or if fortunate in the company of a few close friends, as in the case of Paine. Far from "forgotten," his name and his works continued to be the bugbear and target of priests, parsons, and political reactionaries for the next 200 years. He was condemned from the pulpit and commemorated by the friends of democracy and equality. Andrew Jackson wrote c. 1830s that ""Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty." Forgotten ? That claim should be forgotten. It never happened -- not once -- and ought not be repeated by people, however well-meaning, who pretend to know the history.
Burke was correct about France
@@briandelaney9710 "He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. " Thomas Paine, RIGHTS OF MAN