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In fact the most emotionally moving moments of the movie were clips from live news reels and candle light vigils.
The people of Hong Kong continue to confront bravely the Goliath that threatens their values, even holding June vigils to honor the victims of the Beijing massacre – something that no mainland group would be permitted to do.
Last month, on the third anniversary of the eruption of protests in Damascus and other Syrian cities, people around the world mobilized in street vigils and online as part of the “With Syria” campaign.
In India, vigils making common cause with the Chibok girls were led by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which every day rescues children from trafficking and slave labor.
One million people have now signed petitions, and a month from now, on June 16, the international Day of the African Child, there will be vigils in every continent of the world.
I had thought that after so much exposure, thousands of Americans would be holding vigils on Capitol Hill, that religious leaders would be asking God’s forgiveness, and that a popular groundswell of revulsion, similar to the nineteenth-century anti-slavery movement, would emerge.
April 7 marked the start of a weeklong tribute to the abducted school girls in Nigeria, which will include vigils, marches, demonstrations, letter-writing, and petitions.
At the same time, the newly formed Chibok Girls Ambassadors – schoolgirls aged 10-18 who have volunteered their time – will join with the World at Schools Global Youth Ambassadors to organize vigils in 100 countries in support of the girls.
Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!
We have to slay pride in giants, envy by generosity and nobleness of heart, anger by calmness of demeanour and equanimity, gluttony and sloth by the spareness of our diet and the length of our vigils, lust and lewdness by the loyalty we preserve to those whom we have made the mistresses of our thoughts, indolence by traversing the world in all directions seeking opportunities of making ourselves, besides Christians, famous knights.
Sleep, I say, and will say a hundred times, without any jealous thoughts of thy mistress to make thee keep ceaseless vigils, or any cares as to how thou art to pay the debts thou owest, or find to-morrow's food for thyself and thy needy little family, to interfere with thy repose.
"I wish I knew," said Wamba, when his comrade's back was turned, "what you Palmers learn in the Holy Land.""To say our orisons, fool," answered the Pilgrim, "to repent our sins, and to mortify ourselves with fastings, vigils, and long prayers."
"Something more potent than that," answered the Jester; "for when would repentance or prayer make Gurth do a courtesy, or fasting or vigil persuade him to lend you a mule?--I trow you might as well have told his favourite black boar of thy vigils and penance, and wouldst have gotten as civil an answer."
"Ay, and they drank out all the good wine and ale that lay in store for many a secret carousal, when ye pretend ye are but busied with vigils and primes!--Priest, thou art bound to revenge such sacrilege."
"Jane, Jane," said he, stopping before me, "you are quite pale with your vigils: don't you curse me for disturbing your rest?""Curse you?