Declaration

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Carthage must be destroyed.

Cato the Elder

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

Cato ended several of his speeches with this phrase after his visit to Carthage in 152 BC.

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Topic

War

Speaker

Cato the Elder

Author

Plutarch

Source

Plutarch's Lives

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Declaration

Language

Latin

Time

149 BC 140s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Cato the Elder. Speech within the Roman Senate prior to the Third Punic War. c. 149 BC, Rome, Italy.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

On his illness.

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Topic

Never surrender Surrender

Speaker

Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Genre

Biography

Statement Type

Declaration

Language

English

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1776," aetat. 46.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.

Langston Hughes

Read Negro at poets.org

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Topic

Black identity

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

Negro

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Declaration

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. "Negro." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

Current Citation

Hughes, Langston. "Proem." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

They shall not pass.

Dolores Ibarruri

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Speaker

Dolores Ibarruri

Medium

Radio broadcast Speech

Statement Type

Declaration

Language

Spanish

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Ibarruri, Dolores. Radio broadcast. 19 July 1936, Madrid, Spain.