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1830–1882 Brazil
Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (Salvador, June 21, 1830 - São Paulo, August 24, 1882) was a Brazilian rábula (a self-taught lawyer), abolitionist, orator, journalist and writer, and the Patron of the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil.
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Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under various aspects.
A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state.
I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty.
The slave who kills his master, in any circumstance, always does so in self-defense.
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.
Under the law, the crime of murder perpetrated by the slave on the person of the master is justifiable
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.
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.
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