13 Quotes by Martin Delany

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

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.

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.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land.