Quote by Toussaint Louverture: “I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man.”

No matter what circumstances you are born into, your inner sense of freedom and dignity cannot be taken away unless you surrender it. This is about the difference between what is done to you and who you fundamentally are.

Louverture spoke during the height of the Haitian Revolution, a period when enslaved people in Saint-Domingue were fighting for their freedom against French colonial power. The revolution began in 1791 and shocked the world by challenging the very foundations of colonial slavery.

Haitian revolutionary leader and the most prominent figure of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolt in history. Born into slavery, he rose to lead the liberation of Saint-Domingue, which became the Republic of Haiti in 1804.