Martin Delany quotes

Martin Delany quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- Martin Delany

#Self Quotes #Hands Quotes #Effort Quotes
“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 . . .”
-- Martin Delany

#Thinking Quotes #May Quotes #Able Quotes
“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.”
-- Martin Delany

#Destiny Quotes #People Quotes #Desire Quotes
“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 . . .”
-- Martin Delany

#Men Quotes #Issues Quotes #Fearless Quotes
“The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.”
-- Martin Delany

#People Quotes #Capacity Quotes #Usage Quotes
“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.”
-- Martin Delany

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Justice Quotes
“The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.”
-- Martin Delany

#Rights Quotes #Justice Quotes #People Quotes
“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”
-- Martin Delany

#Men Quotes #Land Quotes #America Quotes
“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

#Men Quotes #Vipers Quotes #Honest Quotes

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