Toussaint Louverture Quotes
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People“In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in St-Domingue-it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ Under the blows of your barbarous whip we have accumulated for you the treasures you enjoy in this colony; the human race has suffered to see with what barbarity you have treated men like yourself... ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man... ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices! ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ For too long we have borne your chains without thinking of shaking them off, but any authority which is not founded on virtue and humanity, and which only tends to subject one's fellow man to slavery, must come to an end, and that end is yours. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again! ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ Idleness is the source of all disorders, and if it is at all tolerated, I shall hold the military commanders responsible, persuaded that those who tolerate idleness and vagabonds are secret enemies of the government. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ [Let us overcome] the barriers that separate nations, and unite the human species into a single brotherhood. We seek only to bring to men the liberty that [God] has given them, and that other men have taken from hem only by transgressing His immutable will. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ We are free today because we are the stronger, we will be slaves again when the government becomes stronger. ”
Toussaint LouvertureQuotes
People“ Tear up the roads with shot; throw corpses and horses into all the fountains; burn and annihilate everything, in order that those who have come to reduce us to slavery may have before their eyes the image of hell which they deserve. ”
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