In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die.
Letter from Batoche, N.W. T. to The Irish World (6 May 1885), also published as " An Appeal for Justice" in The Gibbet of Regina : The Truth about Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet Before Public Opinion, by One who Knows (1886) by One who knows, Napoléon Thompson, p. 186
Kontext: 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 God's blessing, re-enter into the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions.
„To, že raz zlyháte, neznamená, že zlyháte vo všetkom.“
„Môžeš mať všetko, za čo si ochotný bojovať.“
„Bojujme za právo každého človeka na kolektívy život a individuálnu smrť.“
„Myšlienky nemožno prežiť, ak človek zaň nemôže bojovať.“
„Som zranený, ale nie zabitý
Ľahnem si na chvíľu a budem krvácať
Potom vstanem, aby som bojoval znova“
„Všetko, čo sme chceli, bolo naše právo žiariť.“
