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“Let everyone who can smite, slay, and stab, secretly and openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.” ~ Martin Luther

"Open your eyes! What is the evil brew from which all usury, theft, and robbery springs but the assumption of our lords and princes that all creatures are their property? The fish in the water, the birds in the air, the plants on the face of the earth – it all has to belong to them!...And Doctor Liar responds, Amen. It is the lords themselves who make the poor man their enemy. If they refuse to do away with the causes of insurrection, how can trouble be avoided in the long run? If saying that makes me an inciter to insurrection, so be it!" ~ Thomas Müntzer

Five centuries ago, Germany experienced a massive popular revolt that spread through the countryside and towns. The German lords drowned the revolt in blood, but the popular demands for freedom and equality have resonated right up to the present day ~ Martin Empson
The German Peasants’ War Was Europe’s Biggest Social Revolt Before the French Revolution | by Martin Empson | 2024 | Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/german-peasants-war-feudalism-class-conflict-reformation

Nonetheless, the events of the Peasants’ War marked significant steps toward the Enlightenment principles of human liberty. It was a precursor not to the Bolshevik Revolution, as is often claimed, but the American Revolution. The Twelve Articles declared: “Every peasant should be recognized as an autonomous being equal to any lord in the eyes of God.” In the Declaration of Independence, that became “All men are created equal.” Luther declared that “heresy cannot be opposed with violence,” even if he contradicted himself later. These steps didn’t lead directly to full religious freedom, but they helped to light the way ~ Gary McGath
The Peasants’ War and Martin Luther | by Gary McGath | January 26, 2024 | Online Library of Liberty
https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/2024-01-26-mcgath-peasants-war-martin-luther

The Twelve Articles are regarded as the first document concerning human rights in Europe in the Early Modern Era, but they were rejected by the nobility, and that decision was supported by Martin Luther ~ Joshua J. Mark
German Peasants' War | by Joshua J. Mark | 07 February 2022 | World History Encyclopedia https://www.worldhistory.org/German_Peasants'_War/

Martin Luther.Wild Boar in the Vineyard: Martin Luther at the Birth of the Modern World ~ Burke Library Exhibits, Columbia University. https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/martin-luther/peasants

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