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Toussaint Louverture

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

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These are some quotes by Haitian author Toussaint Louverture Leader, who lived between May 20, 1743 and April 7, 1803.

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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

Toussaint Louverture

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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.

Toussaint Louverture

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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.

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 Louverture

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