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During the Indonesian National Revolution, the Pemuda ("Youth") used the phrase Merdeka atau Mati ("Freedom or Death"). [37] In the 1964 speech "The Ballot or the Bullet" in Cleveland, Malcolm X said, "It'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets. It'll be liberty, or it will be death. The only difference about this kind of death—it'll be reciprocal ...
Patrick Henry (May 29 [O.S. May 18], 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
Liberty or Death, 1993; Freedom or Death, a 1913 speech made by English militant feminist Emmeline Pankhurst; Independence or Death, by Pedro Américo, 1888; Troutman flag, with the words "Liberty or Death", used by the Georgia battalion during Texas revolution " Tod oder Freiheit" ('Death or Liberty'), a quotation from the play The Robbers ...
Illustration of Revolutionary War leader Patrick Henry's (1736-1799) patriotic pronunciation of "Give me liberty or give me death" in 1775. Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
The (Revolutionary War) patriot, Patrick Henry, had it right when he said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Spoken before the American Revolutionary War, Henry’s cry is one to which most ...
Eleftheria i thanatos (Greek: Ελευθερία ή θάνατος, IPA: [elefθeˈri.a i ˈθanatos]; 'Freedom or Death') is the motto of Greece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It originated in the Greek songs of resistance that were powerful motivating factors for independence.
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Soon after the Revolution, the motto was often written as "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death." "Death" was later dropped for being too strongly associated with the excesses of the revolution. The French Tricolour has been seen as embodying all the principles of the Revolution— Liberté, égalité, fraternité. [3]