# Quote — Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

> These rebels burned your city to the ground. They wanted you and your people to starve. They are the poison of Orïsha! If you do not cut off the hand now, eventually you will be forced to sever the entire limb.”

- Author: [Tomi Adeyemi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi.md)
- Book: [Children of Virtue and Vengeance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tomi_Adeyemi#Children_of_Virtue_and_Vengeance) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/these-rebels-burned

## More from this book

> (Chapter Eighty-Five )

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> Yoruba is sacred to our people. It’s not just something you can learn.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/yoruba-is-sacred.md)

> After the Raid, practicing these incantations was the only part of him I had left.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/after-the-raid.md)