Give me liberty or give me death

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The 5,000 square foot exhibit will include rare artifacts such as Tupac Shakur’s handwritten 1992 essay “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” — in which the young hip-hop superstar found parallels between one of the best-known speeches in American history, a cry for freedom given by founding father Patrick Henry at the Second Virginia Convention, and the experiences of being a minority in the U.S.

From Seattle Times

McWilliams writes that Patrick Henry — the Virginia-born Founding Father who famously uttered "Give me liberty, or give me death!" — criticized Jefferson's preoccupation with French cuisine to be "effete affectation that made him 'abjure his native victuals.'"

From Salon

"Several thousand neopatriots – some shouting 'Give me liberty or give me death!' – took to the streets in over 30 U.S. cities," the Christian Science Monitor reported.

From Salon

“Give me liberty or give me death,” he shouted, using the Chinese version of the American revolutionary battle cry.

From New York Times

“It’s hard for people who haven’t lived in China in the past three to four years to imagine how much fear these people had to overcome to take to the streets, to shout, ‘Give me liberty, or give me death,’” she wrote.

From New York Times