the first stanzas of this song are taken from the old radical/anarchist writings of Percy Shelley which goes:
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth, like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you --
Ye are many, they are few!
-- "Mask of Anarchy"
These lines can also be found in the great book "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn in the last lines of the last page. Read this book and blow your mind!
the first stanzas of this song are taken from the old radical/anarchist writings of Percy Shelley which goes: Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you -- Ye are many, they are few! -- "Mask of Anarchy"
These lines can also be found in the great book "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn in the last lines of the last page. Read this book and blow your mind!