"The day of happiness will be the memorable day of the emancipation of the people, and the day of emancipation will be…"

"If someday (...) the respectable judges of Brazil, forgetful of the respect they owe the law, and of the indispensabl…"

"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…"

"Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under vario…"

"I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty."

"There are scenes of such greatness, or of such misery, that being complete in their kind, they cannot be described; t…"

"Wretched people; they ignore that it is more glorious to die free on a rope, or torn to pieces by dogs in the public …"

"A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state."

"In front of them Washington, pensive like Archimedes, with the tip of the sacred sword, soaked in the blood of battle…"

"At half past one o'clock, as today, 90 years ago, expired the man who, in this country, first proposed the liberation…"