“Did Ambroise Lépine not play an equally important role as Riel in 1870 in Manitoba?”
Category: Louis Riel
“The end which our enemies have in view is plain. Their object is to prevent good people from extending to us their sympathy while they themselves may rob us in the dark and murder us without pity.”
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A Martyr – The Alarm (1885)
“The name of this man? Louis Riel. His crime? He called out his brethren, the Canadian half-breeds, to arms; he has unfurled the sacred standard of human freedom and independence.”
“In this system we’re in, things aren’t right. We can’t all be rich and it takes a lot of poor people to make one person rich. I don’t agree with the system — I am basically a socialist-minded person.”
“Try as they would, the Metis could not get titles to their lands, while the government alienated large blocks of lands to speculators”
