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"Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time."
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Louis RielIn a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for — Louis Riel
"In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. A day of reckoning will come to our enemies and of jubilee to my people. The hated yoke of English domination and arrogance will be broken in this land, and the long-suffering victims of their injustice will, with Gods blessing, re-enter into the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions."
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Louis Riel
Louis Riel
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Louis Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald. Riel fought to defend Métis rights and identity as the Northwest Territories came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence.
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"We may be a small community and a Half-breed community at that — but we are men, free and spirited men, and we will not allow even the Dominion of Canada to trample on our rights."
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"My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back."
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"I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country."
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"When I see British people sitting in the court to try me, remembering that the English people are proud of that word "Fair play," I am confident that I will be blessed by God and by man also. Not only Bishop Bourget spoke to me in that way, but Father Jean-Baptiste Bruno, the priest of Worcester, who was my director of conscience, said to me: "Riel, God has put an object into your hands the cause of the triumph of religion in the world, take care, you will succeed when most believe you have lost." I have got those words in my head, those words of J. B. Bruno and the late Archbishop Bourget."
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"We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on."
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