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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 Louverture
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#Man
#Myself
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#Revolution
The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.
- Toussaint Louverture
#Fight
#Liberty
#Me
#Myself
#Seeing
Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.
- Toussaint Louverture
#Bad
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#Men
#Myself
#Past
Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.
- Toussaint Louverture
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#Seduction
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#Your
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.
- Toussaint Louverture
#Attention
#Eyes
#Future
#Serious
#Wish
I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
- Toussaint Louverture
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#Necessary
#Need
#Want
#War
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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#Enemy
#Hands
#Intentions
#Liberty
Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
- Toussaint Louverture
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#Mother
#Sloth
#Vices
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 Louverture
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#Pleasure
#Principles
#Thoughts
#Who
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.
- Toussaint Louverture
#Know
#My Own
#Own
#People
#Stop
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
- Toussaint Louverture
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#Government
#Stronger
#Today
#Will
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
#Alone
#Black
#Liberty
#Man
#White
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
- Toussaint Louverture
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#More
#Will
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
- Toussaint Louverture
#Deep
#Me
#Roots
#Tree
#Will
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 Louverture
#Equality
#Fight
#Liberty
#Us
#Want
#Work
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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#Freedom
#Own
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