Martin Delany famous 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.
-- Martin Delany

#Self #Hands #Effort
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
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
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
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 #Capacity #Usage
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 #White #Justice
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 #Justice #People
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
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

The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

Martin Delany famous quotes

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