Martin Delany 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, People, Justice

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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.

  Martin Delany

  Work, Self, Hands

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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.

  Martin Delany

  Destiny, People, Desire

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• No estoy a favor de las castas, ni de la separación de la hermandad de la humanidad, y viviría tan gustosamente entre los hombres blancos como entre los negros, si tuviera igual posesión y disfrute de privilegios, pero nunca me reconciliaré con vivir entre ellos sometido a su voluntad.

  Martin Delany

  Hombres, Hombre Blanco, Justicia

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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 . . .

  Martin Delany

  Thinking, May, Able

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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 . . .

  Martin Delany

  Men, Issues, Fearless

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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

  Martin Delany

  Men, Land, America

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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.

  Martin Delany

  People, Claims, Capacity

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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

  Men, Vipers, Honest

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