No—it is not true that heaven and earth are in antagonism; it is not true, that, while in heaven the truth and justice of God reign, submission to fact and reverence for brute force are a law of the earth.
From his autobiography, Garibaldi refutes the idea that earthly injustice is divinely ordained or separate from heavenly justice.
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You who are here—you, the educated and cultivated portion of the citizenship—you have the duty to educate the people.
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.
Education gives liberty—education gives to the people the means and the power to secure and defend their own independence.
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