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" The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. "
Journal of United Labor - Page 477
by Knights of Labor - 1883
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Wetlands Conservation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment - Law - 1992 - 1020 pages
...WINTER LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVE FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE DIVISION NOVEMBER 21, 1991 : law locks up the man or woman, who steals the goose from off the common; But the greater i the law lets loose, who steals the commons from the goose." Anonymous, 17th Century INTRODUCTION...
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Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java

Nancy Lee Peluso - Social Science - 2023 - 348 pages
...Chinese. 7. Chambers (1983:12) based these lines on the following old English rhyme: "They clap in gaol the man or woman / Who steals the goose from off the common / But let the bigger knave go loose / Who steals the common from the goose." 8. In addition to the works...
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Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia

Deborah Oxley - Business & Economics - 1996 - 358 pages
...lands were turned into property crimes like poaching.12 A popular ditty declared: The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Forms of worker resistance...
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P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul Simon

Paul Simon - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 440 pages
...unknown origin which tells of a danger in our society and every society: The law locks up both man and woman, Who steals the goose from off the Common. But...felon loose, Who steals the Common from the goose. One man who helped me in my last campaign, claiming to have raised more money than I believe he did,...
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Justice Without Frontiers: Furthering Human Rights

C. G. Weeramantry - Political Science - 1998 - 698 pages
...natural order — an interference captured in the verse: The law locks up both man and woman Who steal the goose from off the common But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. In America, Thoreau, likewise, gave expression to ideas of the importance of nature, which were sweeping...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...eyes at me; No more spiders in my bath Trying hard to make me laugh. The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 176 Let's all give God a great big hand. I've...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...eyes at me; No more spiders in my bath Trying hard to make me laugh. 310 The law locks up both man and Հ great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 311 Let's all give God a great big hand. I've...
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The Roots of Environmental Consciousness: Popular Tradition and Personal ...

Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson - Environmental sciences - 2000 - 248 pages
...the onslaught of development A case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas Jaclyn Jeffrey The law condemns the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose. Old English folk saying1 One of the sad facts that...
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The Many-headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of ...

Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker - Capitalism - 2000 - 458 pages
...had enclosed the common lands. An anonymous ditty summed up the loss and the crime: The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. Resistance to expropriation was strong in her home...
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Environmental Problems in America's Garden of Eden

Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington - History - 2001 - 396 pages
...on his lourney, Mills rememhered an old English rhyme that ohserved: The law locks up hoth man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater fefon foose Who steals the common from the goose.1 Mills noted many parallels hetween the "common"...
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