Eliazer Ben Jair Quotes
We prefer death to slavery.
Soon after, he led 960 men, women and children in a mass suicide at Masada.
Eliazer Ben Jair, ?-73, Zealot Leader, Quoted by Josephus, The Roman Jewish War, vii
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.
See Joseph Addison which may have been the inspiration for this famous quote: {613374}.
She had escaped, met and married another slave, and they cleverly escaped to England with her posing as the white owner of her husband. She was the daughter of a Black slave and her white master who kept his own daughter in bondage.
See also {612345} for a contemporary description of the Slavs.
He had been King of Portugal and then had come to the Portuguese colony of Brazil where he led a revolution against Portugal, declared independence from the “mother country, and was elected as Emperor of Brazil. The Colony was much larger and richer in natural resources than the “mother country.”
