There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind.
Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.
158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block
Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.