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Luís Gama
12 quotes
“The day of happiness will be the memorable day of the emancipation of the people, and the day of emancipation will be the one when the great are put down and the small raised up; when there are neither masters nor slaves; bosses nor subordinates; powerful nor weak; oppressors nor oppressed; but when the vast Brazil is called the common homeland of Brazilian citizens or United States of Brazil.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Correio Paulistano, January 29, 1867. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.
“If someday (...) the respectable judges of Brazil, forgetful of the respect they owe the law, and of the indispensable duties they have contracted before morality and the nation, corrupted by venality or the deleterious action of power, abandoning the sacrosanct cause of law (...) failing in due justice to the unfortunate ones who suffer unjust slavery, I, on my own account, (...) and under my sole responsibility, will advise and promote, not insurrection, which is a crime, but "resistance", which is a civic virtue.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Correio Paulistano, November 10, 1871. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.
“I am not a legal scholar, I am not a doctor, I am not a law graduate, I have no pretensions to celebrity, nor am I in the position to occupy a position in the judiciary; I am, however, disgusted by the notorious incongruity of which, with undauntled arrogance, eminent magistrates who have as their office the study of laws, and as their obligation the just application of them.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Correio Paulistano, March 12, 1874. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.
“Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under various aspects.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1876. Source: Luiz Gama foi o 1º jornalista brasileiro negro, mas ainda é desconhecido.
“I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Província de São Paulo, “Questão forense”, October 14, 1880. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.
“There are scenes of such greatness, or of such misery, that being complete in their kind, they cannot be described; the world and the atom define themselves; thus, crime and virtue keep the same proportion; thus, the slave who kills the master, who fulfills an inevitable prescription of natural right, and the unworthy people, who murder heroes, will never be mixed.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Província de São Paulo, Carta a Ferreira de Menezes, December 18, 1880. Source: Leia artigo de Luiz Gama publicado há mais de 140 anos nas páginas do Estadão.
“Wretched people; they ignore that it is more glorious to die free on a rope, or torn to pieces by dogs in the public square, than to feast with the Neros in slavery.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Província de São Paulo, Carta a Ferreira de Menezes, December 18, 1880. Source: Leia artigo de Luiz Gama publicado há mais de 140 anos nas páginas do Estadão.
“A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gazeta da Tarde, [Carta a Ferreira de Menezes], January 07, 1881. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.
“In front of them Washington, pensive like Archimedes, with the tip of the sacred sword, soaked in the blood of battles, inscribes the United States on the map of the Nations; and Franklin, the modern Teramenes, snatching a ray from the sun, with lucid stars, engraves in infinity the eternal legend of Liberty.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: À Forca o Cristo da Multidão, 1882. Source: Luiz Gama desenha o perfil de Tiradentes.
“At half past one o'clock, as today, 90 years ago, expired the man who, in this country, first proposed the liberation of the slaves, and the proclamation of the Republic. He was tried as a defendant of lese-majestie, he was killed, but Tiradentes dead, like the sun at sunset, shows himself to the universe as great as at its dawn.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: À Forca o Cristo da Multidão, 1882. Source: Luiz Gama desenha o perfil de Tiradentes.
“Under the law, the crime of murder perpetrated by the slave on the person of the master is justifiable”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Subtitle of the article "Aos escravocratas" written by Raul Pompeia. Newspaper "ÇA IRA", August 19, 1882. Source: Benedito, Mouzar (2011). Luiz Gama - o libertador de escravos e sua mãe libertária, Luíza Mahin 2 ed. São…
“The slave who kills his master, in any circumstance, always does so in self-defense.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source