... Shevchenko is not merely a martyr or a victim of the
powers under whom he lived and suffered. He summarized and
embodied the past of Ukraine but also he was living just at
that very moment when the ideals of the future were being
forged in the fire of adversity. He spoke for the future of
his land as well as for the past, for the future liberty
and freedom that were to come as well as of that glory which
had faded.
 - Clarence A. Manning, Columbia University. In: Taras
   Shevchenko: Bard of Ukraine, by D. Doroshenko. New York
   1936, p. 4.