An Injury to One is an Injury to All-----IWW, NATO, and the ILWU agree.
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"Ahimsa (IAST: ahiṃsā, Pāli:[1] avihiṃsā) means 'not to injure' and 'compassion' and refers to a key virtue in Indian religions.
The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hiṃs – to strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, a-hiṃsā is the opposite of this, i.e. cause no injury, do no harm.
Ahimsa is also referred to as nonviolence, and it applies to all living beings—including all animals—in ancient Indian religions.
Ahimsa is one of the cardinal virtues and an important tenet of Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Ahimsa is a multidimensional concept, inspired by the premise that all living beings have the spark of the divine spiritual energy;
therefore, to hurt another being is to hurt oneself. "
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"The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights."
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The law of love, peace and liberty in the states extending
to Jews, Turks and Egyptians, as they are considered sonnes of Adam,
which is the glory of the outward state of Holland,
soe love, peace and liberty, extending to all in Christ Jesus,
condemns hatred, war and bondage.
And because our Saviour sayeth it is impossible but that offences will come,
but woe unto him by whom they cometh, our desire is not to offend
one of his little ones, in whatsoever form, name or title hee appears in,
whether Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist or Quaker,
but shall be glad to see anything of God in any of them,
desiring to doe unto all men as we desire all men should doe unto us,
which is the true law both of Church and State; for our Saviour sayeth
this is the law and the prophets.
Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us,
we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them,
but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses,
as God shall persuade our consciences, for we are bounde
by the law of God and man
to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man.
And this is according to the patent and charter of our Towne,
given unto us in the name of the States General, which we are not willing
to infringe, and violate, but shall houlde to our patent
and shall remaine, your humble subjects, the inhabitants of Vlishing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Remonstrance
"Frans Janszen Bloetgoet was born around 1623.[1] He was the son of Jan Heyndrickse Goetbloet (or Bloetgoet) and Geertgen Thomas, both of Gouda, South Holland.[2] He was living on the Corten Tiendewech, Gouda when he married Lysbeth Jans, of Gouda on 18 February 1645 at Reeuwijk, near Gouda.[1]
The couple emigrated soon after their marriage.[1] They brought with them their child, Geertie when they emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1659.[3] Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware River in 1659.
They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673.[4]
Bloodgood had acquired land, sheep and cattle by the time of his death.[3] Frans Bloetgoet and his wife both belonged to the New York Dutch Church, and all but two of their children were baptized there.[5]
On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. "
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