Martin Delany quotes
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“Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.”
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“Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .”
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“Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.”
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“We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .”
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“The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.”
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“I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.”
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“The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.”
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“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”
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“A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.”
-- Martin Delany
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