Poets of the Orient
Muhammed al Obeidi, his poems were very famous during the 1920's when the Iraqis were trying to establish an independant country, free from British intervention.
Set fire noble Iraqis
wash our shame with blood
We are not slaves
to adorn our necks with collars
We are not prisoners to submit ourselves to be manacled
We are not women
whose only weapon is the tear
We are not orphans
that seek a Mandate for Iraq
And if we bow before oppression
We shall forfeit the pleasures of the Tigris.
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I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx
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