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Joe Hill , auch bekannt unter dem Namen Joseph Hillström, war ein US-amerikanischer Wanderarbeiter , Arbeiterführer, Gewerkschaftsaktivist, Sänger und Liedermacher. Er spielte Banjo, Gitarre, Klavier und Akkordeon. Aus seiner Feder stammen zahlreiche populäre englischsprachige Folksongs, die u. a. im Little Red Songbook der IWW veröffentlicht wurden. Seine Liedtexte zeichnen sich durch Humor und Ironie aus.

In einem umstrittenen Gerichtsverfahren wurde er wegen Mordes zum Tode verurteilt; nach seiner Hinrichtung wurde er zur Legende und seinerseits zum Gegenstand zahlreicher Songs. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Oktober 1879 – 19. November 1915
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“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”

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Quelle: Horns

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”

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Quelle: NOS4A2

“She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.”

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Quelle: Horns

“I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art.
"That's because it already starved to death.”

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Quelle: 20th Century Ghosts

“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”

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Quelle: 20th Century Ghosts

“You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better…”

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Quelle: NOS4A2

“If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.”

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Quelle: Heart-Shaped Box

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

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“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”

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Quelle: 20th Century Ghosts

“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up. That wasn’t in the Bible, but maybe it should’ve been.”

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Quelle: Horns

“And he paddled away in his douche canoe.”

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Quelle: NOS4A2

“I'm not questioning your bravery. I'm questioning your intelligence.”

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Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows

“I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.”

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Remarks to the judge after being found guilty of murder (1915-07-08), as quoted in Philip Foner, The Case of Joe Hill (International Publishers Co., 1966, ISBN 0-717-80022-9, 127 pages), p. 49. Under Utah law, he was allowed a choice of being shot or hanged.

“Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.”

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Telegram to William "Big Bill" Haywood (1915-11-18), quoted in International Socialist Review, vol. XVI (December 1915)

“Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:

You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.”

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"The Preacher and the Slave" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave (1911)

“I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.”

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Said while being taken to his execution, as quoted in Philip Foner, The Case of Joe Hill (International Publishers Co., 1966), p. 108

“My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide.
My kin don't need to fuss and moan —
"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone."

My body? — Oh! — If I could choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.

Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my last and final will.
Good luck to all of you. [Joe Hill]”

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My Last Will http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Last_Will (1915-11-18)

“Workingmen of all countries, unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight:
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

You will eat, bye and bye,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry
Chop some wood, 'twill do you good,
And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.”

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"The Preacher and the Slave" (1911)

“There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingmen.
When they stand hand in hand,
That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
That must rule in every land —
One Industrial Union Grand.”

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"There is power in a Union" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/There_Is_Power_in_a_Union (1913)

“A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.”

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Letter to the editor of Solidarity (1914-11-29)

“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?”

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"Workers of the World Awaken"

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