Giuseppe Garibaldi: “But who, in those days, had ever taught them how to be patriots and Italians?”

You who are here—you, the educated and cultivated portion of the citizenship—you have the duty to educate the people.

I love and venerate the religion of Christ, because Christ came into the world to deliver humanity from slavery, for which God has not created it.

Let no one misunderstand my words—let no one confound Popery with Christianity—the Religion of Liberty with the avaricious and sanguinary Politics of Slavery.

This stupendous page of our history must be followed by one more glorious still; and the slave will finally show to the free brother a sharpened iron which belonged to the links of his chains.