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: If a man gives you freedom, it is not freedom. Freedom is something you, you alone, must take.

  • Sir William Walker: The man that fights for an idea is a hero. And a hero who is killed becomes a martyr and a martyr immediately becomes a myth. A myth is more dangerous than a man because you can't kill a myth. Don't you agree, Shelton? I mean, think of his ghost running through the Antilles. Think of the legends and the songs.

    Shelton: Better songs than armies.

    Sir William Walker: Better silence than songs.