Jean-Jacques Dessalines quotes

Jean-Jacques Dessalines quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.”
-- Jean-Jacques Dessalines

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“Leave nothing white behind you.”
-- Jean-Jacques Dessalines

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“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”
“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press
“Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.”
“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought”
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
“In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.”
“The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks”
“I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.”

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