Toussaint Louverture famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.
-- Toussaint Louverture

#Men #Soul #Slave
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
-- Toussaint Louverture

#Character #Enemy #Needs
It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
-- Toussaint Louverture

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Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.
-- Toussaint Louverture

#Unity #Stronger #Combination

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
No one man is superior to the game.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.
I sold my soul to the devil in L.A
I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an â€˜okayâ€™?
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

Toussaint Louverture famous quotes

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