Miguel de Cervantes Card

Miguel de Cervantes: Golden Gate Park, SF, the night of June 19, 2020, other statues were toppled, the statue of the write Miguel de Cervantes was painted red on the eyes and the word bastard written on it. Cervantes wrote Don Quixote and was considered the first novelist. He was enslaved by the Ottomans for five years yet opposed the expulsion of the Moors from Spain. Cervantes valued freedom as everyone's life regardless of race or background. "Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holes buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honour, life may and should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man."