author:Victor Hugo, Letters on American Slavery — Victor Hugo on American Slavery (1860)
“ Let all those great souls who love the United States, as a country, be re-assured. The United States must renounce Slavery, or they must renounce Liberty. They cannot renounce Liberty. They must renounce Slavery, or renounce the Gospel. ”
author:Victor Hugo, Letters on American Slavery — Victor Hugo on American Slavery (1860)
“ Slavery sanctioned by law among that illustrious people, who for seventy years have measured the progress of civilization by their march, demonstrated democracy by their power, and liberty by their prosperity! Slavery in the United States! ”
author:Victor Hugo, Letters on American Slavery — Victor Hugo on American Slavery (1860)
“ There is an inflexible logic which develops more or less slowly, which fashions, which redresses according to a mysterious plan, perceptible only to great spirits, the facts, the men, the laws, the morals, the people ”
