Toussaint Louverture (Haitian - Leader)
May 20, 1743 - April 7, 1803
The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.
Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
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.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
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.
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