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cheese_of_the_world_unite

Reminder that nobody showed up to Thomas Paine’s funeral because he was TOO principled about freedom, and shit on George Washington for being an arrogant elitist and slaver who failed to do anything about Paine’s arrest during the French Revolution.

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"Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen; an open and resolute friend; and a virtuous supporter of the rights of mankind and the free and independent states of America." -Thomas Paine

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Anonymous 2w

Thomas Paine my beloved, the only true Revolutionary among the American Revolutionaries ❤️

Anonymous 2w

reminder that we still don’t know where his remains are. he was denied the right of being buried where he chose (the church near his home iirc?) because his ideas of freedom were so radical (feminism!) that authority figures took offense

Anonymous 2w

ah found an article because I was doubting that I remembered this story right: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/04/the-bones-of-thomas-paine/