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In 2020, signs attacking health regulations demanded, rather confusedly, “Give me liberty or give me COVID-19!” Protesters seeking to undermine a democratic election on Jan. 6, 2021, quoted Henry.
Patrick Henry's 1775 "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech, depicted in an 1876 lithograph by Currier and Ives now housed in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. " Give me liberty or give me death! " is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on ...
Cuccinelli would have rewritten the caveat as, "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge". He later suggested that the "huddled masses" should be European, and he downplayed the poem as "not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty." Cuccinelli's remark prompted criticism.
Give me liberty or give me death! – slogan coined by Patrick Henry prior to the American Revolutionary War ; various versions and translations have been used around the world God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve – anti-gay slogan used by Christians who oppose homosexuality on religious grounds ; used by televangelist and Moral Majority ...
The Romanian national anthem, Deșteaptă-te, române!, contains the line "‘Viața-n libertate ori moarte!"’ strigă toți", meaning " 'Life in freedom or death!' shout all". "Ӏожалла я маршо" ( Jozhalla ya marsho " Death or Freedom ") was the national anthem and the slogan of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991–1996).
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
The title is a play on the ultimatum by Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty or give me death!", and is intended as a commentary on American consumerism. Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death was the last Dead Kennedys album that Biafra approved the production of, and their last album released through Alternative Tentacles.
Moms for Liberty now focuses on trying to limit discussion of gender and sexuality and racial equity in schools, as well as trying to remove books from schools that group members say are age ...