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1 " [in response to Jean-François, who claimed that, "there is no irrevocable liberty for the former slaves except that which the Spanish monarch would grant them because, as a legitimate king, he alone has the right to legitimate that freedom"] . . . [W]e are free by natural right. It could only be kings . . . who dare claim the right to reduce into servitude men made like them and whom nature has made free. "
― Toussaint Louverture , The Haitian Revolution
2 " In overthrowing me, you have cut only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again for its roots are numerous and deep! "
― Toussaint Louverture
