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“If you wish to keep your liberty use your arms on the day that the white authorities ask you for them, because any such request is the infallible sign and precursor of the return to slavery.” ~ Sonthonax

“In overthrowing me, you have cut down in San Domingo only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous and deep.” ~ Toussaint

“Once more the masses had received a shattering blow— not from the bullets of the enemy, but from where the masses most often receive it, from their own trembling leaders.”