Luís Gama

Also known as Luiz Gonzaga Pinto da Gama, Luis Gama, Getulino, Luiz Gama, Da Gama, Luiz Gonzaga Pinto, 1830-1882, Gama, Luiz, 1830-1882, Pinto da Gama, Luiz Gonzaga, 1830-1882,

Quotes

“The day of happiness will be the memorable day of the emancipation of the people, and the day of emancipation will be the one when the great are put down and the small raised up; when there are neither masters nor slaves; bosses nor subordinates; powerful nor weak; oppressors nor oppressed; but when the vast Brazil is called the common homeland of Brazilian citizens or United States of Brazil.”
“I am not a legal scholar, I am not a doctor, I am not a law graduate, I have no pretensions to celebrity, nor am I in the position to occupy a position in the judiciary; I am, however, disgusted by the notorious incongruity of which, with undauntled arrogance, eminent magistrates who have as their office the study of laws, and as their obligation the just application of them.”
“I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty.”
“There are scenes of such greatness, or of such misery, that being complete in their kind, they cannot be described; the world and the atom define themselves; thus, crime and virtue keep the same proportion; thus, the slave who kills the master, who fulfills an inevitable prescription of natural right, and the unworthy people, who murder heroes, will never be mixed.”
“Wretched people; they ignore that it is more glorious to die free on a rope, or torn to pieces by dogs in the public square, than to feast with the Neros in slavery.”
“A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state.”