It is 71 BC and I'm Spartacus
You are Marcus Licinius Crassus
It is 60 AD and I'm Boudica
You are Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
It is 415 and I'm Hypatia
You are the christian mob
It is 1215 and I'm an English Baron
You are King John Lackland
It is 1305 and I'm William Wallace
You are King Edward of Caernarfon
It is 1380 and I'm Wat Tyler
You are King Richard II
It is 1609 and I'm Gaspar Yanga
You are Pedro González de Herrera
It is 1770 and I'm Crispus Attucks
You are the 29th Regiment of Foot
It is 1739 and I'm Jemme
You are the South Carolina militia
It is 1776 and I'm Thomas Paine
You are King George III
It is 1789 and I'm among the Estates-General
You are King Louis XVI
It is 1802 and I'm Toussaint L'Ouverture
You are Jean Baptiste Brunet
It is 1817 and I'm Policarpa Salavarrieta
You are Spanish soldiers in Columbia
It is 1831 and I'm Nat Turner
You are slavers in Southampton County, Virginia
It is 1831 and I'm Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, Creek and Seminole
You are President Andrew Jackson
It is 1844 and I'm Carlota Lukumí
You are the Spanish slavers in Cuba
It is 1856 and I'm John Brown
You are Colonel Robert E. Lee
It is 1860 and I'm Frederick Douglass
You are Jefferson Davis
It is 1864 and I'm the 6th U.S. Regiment Colored Heavy Artillery and the 2nd U.S. Colored Light Artillery
You are Nathan Bedford Forrest
It is 1876 and I'm Crazy Horse
You are George Armstrong Custer
It is 1913 and I'm Emily Wilding Davison
You are King George V
It is 1915 and I'm Joel Emmanuel Hägglund
You are Chief Justice Daniel Straup
It is 1916 and I'm Emiliano Zapata Salazar
You are Pablo González Garza
It is 1917 and I’m Rosa Luxemburg
You are Friedrich Ebert
It is 1917 and I'm a citizen of Petrograd
You are Tsar Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov
It is 1934 and I'm César Augusto Sandino
You are Anastasio Somoza García
It is 1945 and I'm Annelies Marie Frank
You are SS-Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer
It is 1950 and I'm Pedro Albizu Campos
You are the City of San Juan Police Department
It is 1960 and I'm Patria, Dede, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal
You are Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina
It is 1963 and I'm Medgar Wiley Evers
You are Byron De La Beckwith
It is 1964 and I'm James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner
It is 1965 and I'm Malcolm X
You are Talmadge Hayer
It is 1967 and I'm Ernesto (Che) Guevara
You are Félix Rodríguez
It is 1968 and I'm Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are James Earl Ray
It is 1969 and I'm Fred Hampton
You are State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan
It is 1970 and I'm Julio Roldan
You are hacks at the "Tombs" prison facility
It is 1973 and I'm Presidente Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens
You are the General Augusto Pinochet
It is 1977 and I'm Stephen Bantu Biko
You are Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt
It is 1978 and I'm Harvey Bernard Milk
You are Dan White
It is 1993 and I'm Dr. David Gunn
You are Michael F. Griffin
It is 2012 and I'm Malala Yousafzai
You are the Taliban
It is 2014 and I'm Felina / @Miut3
You are the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels in Tamaulipas, Mexico
It is 2015 and I'm a parishoner at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church
You are Dylann Storm Roof
It is 2015 and I'm Ruqia Hassan
You are ISIS
Throughout history and in all corners of the globe I have struggled to be free and to free others, to stand for liberty, justice and equality. To make the world a better place for ALL.
You have defended the baser instincts, the bigoted motive, the greedy goal.
I have often lost the battle, but never the high ground.
You will always be there. You will use every weapon at your disposal to crush me. You are the evil in men's eyes.
I will never back down. I have the right and history on my side.
No matter the time, or the place, or the odds, I'm Spartacus...
and I always will be.
Originally published as a Facebook Note
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