"An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters."
— Revolution

January 1, 1970

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Henry Clay, Speech on the Emancipation of South America, House of Representatives (24 March 1818); The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory