Is it not like cutting off a man's legs and telling him to walk? Is it not like cutting out a man's tongue and telling him to talk? Is it not burying a man alive?
Haitian Revolution leader
Describing the treatment he received from the French, emphasizing the injustice and impossibility of his situation.
1802-1803 (during his imprisonment)
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