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Luther at the Diet of Worms, an 1877 portrait depicting Martin Luther by Anton von Werner. The Diet of Worms of 1521 (German: Reichstag zu Worms [ˈʁaɪçstaːk tsuː ˈvɔʁms]) was an imperial diet (a formal deliberative assembly) of the Holy Roman Empire called by Emperor Charles V and conducted in the Imperial Free City of Worms.
Here I Stand is a 1958 book written by Paul Robeson with the collaboration of Lloyd L. Brown. While Robeson wrote many articles and speeches, Here I stand is his only book. It has been described as part manifesto, part autobiography. [1] It was published by Othello Associates and dedicated to his wife Eslanda Goode Robeson. [2]
Here I Stand may refer to: "Hier stehe ich" ("Here I stand"), a statement attributed to Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms (1521) Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, a 1950 book by Roland Bainton; Here I Stand, a 1958 manifesto-autobiography by Paul Robeson Paul Robeson: Here I Stand, a 1999 DVD about Paul Robeson
Comedian and actor Rob Schneider spoke to Fox News Digital recently about his new book, "You Can Do It!", which urges Americans to defend their free speech from the radical left.
1521: The Here I Stand speech of Martin Luther, defending himself at the Diet of Worms. 1588: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Elizabeth I of England, in preparation for repelling an expected invasion by the Spanish Armada.
[1] Usher noted Here I Stand as beginning "a new chapter in my life"; the album's liner notes contain a verse from 1 Corinthians 13: "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." [1] Here I Stand marked Usher's growth from boyhood to manhood.
"The object of the roles I played is not to turn your stomach − but merely to make your hair stand on end." − Boris Karloff (Distributed by Andrews McMeel) Cryptoquote.
Luther refused to recant his writings. He is sometimes also quoted as saying: "Here I stand. I can do no other". Recent scholars consider the evidence for these words to be unreliable since they were inserted before "May God help me" only in later versions of the speech and not recorded in witness accounts of the proceedings. [82]