Francisco Ferrer Quotes
When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
Ferrer, Francisco. The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School. Translated by Joseph McCabe, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913.
The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.
The entire speech was translated into Spanish and read to great applause to Latin American revolutionary regiments.
At the time, Capetown was under the control of the Dutch East India Company which had recruited Gordon from Scotland. There was a wave of liberality following the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and the very vocal English, anti-slavery, reformers. The Dutch were concerned mainly with making money, and that they thought that meant stability and the status quo. Gordon was their strong spokesman on this. Like American Southern slave owners, Gordon read the Bible as God endorsing slavery and the inferiority of Blacks. Thus, reformers did not "believe in God any more".
The organization sent 2,100 volunteers to fight for South American independence from Spain.
This prophecy written in the later years of Jefferson’s life turned out to be all too true. St. Domingo was an Island in the Caribbean where slavery produced a bloody war. The American Civil War would be far worse.
Despite his speeches like this one, he was a ruthless dictator who then before his death in 2000 handed power to his son.
Under the pre-Civil War Southern economic system the poor whites had little chance of upward mobility and were in many wars as poorly off as slaves. Johnson saw this reform as much more important than the emancipation of the Negro.
Francisco Ferrer i Guàrdia (1859–1909) was a radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
