That's a small masterpiece, and you are the author

Jolie 2022-10-11 19:38:37

- Civilization is not a simple matter, Jose. You cannot learn its secrets overnight. Today civilization belongs to the white man and you must learn to use it. Without it, you cannot go forward.


- Jose Dolores says that if what we have in our country is civilization, civilization of white men, then we are better uncivilized because it is better to know where to go and not know how than it is to know how to go and not know where.
- And then?
- And then, Jose Dolores says that if a man works for another, even if he's called a worker, he remains a slave. And it will always be the same. Since there are those who own the plantations and those who own the machete to cut cane for the owners .
- And then?
- And then, Jose Dolores says that we must cut heads instead of cane.


- Remember what you said? Civilization belongs to whites. But what civilization? And till when?


- Don't you think, that's a small masterpiece?
- And you're the author, Sir William.

Truly an amazing primitive humanity A masterpiece fused with the awakening of civilization, a perfect masterpiece predicted not even by the person who pulled the trigger in the first place.

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Burn! quotes

  • José Dolores: It is not true that fire destroys everything. A little life always remains. Yet in the end, a blade of grass. So, how come the white invaders win? How come they win in the end? Someone of us will always remain. Still others will be born later. And others, too, will begin to understand. In the end, you also will understand. And the whites, in the end, will be maddened by you. Madder than a white beast becomes when he finds he's closed in and the mad beast'll run for the last time, pursued and hunted all over the island, till he falls into one of the great fires that he himself has made. And the groans from this dying beast will become our first cry of freedom. One that will be heard far, far beyond this island.

  • Sir William Walker: Now, listen to me, you black ape! Listen to me. It wasn't I that invented this war. And furthermore, in this case, I didn't even start it. I arrived here and you were already butchering one another.

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