Martin Delany

Person · Open Library

Born

1812

Died

1885

Works

13

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1942-04-01

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Quotes

• “We have never conformed with that class of philosophers who would keep the people in ignorance, lest they might change their opinion from former predilections.”
• “Politicians, religionists, colonizationists, and abolitionists, have each and all, at different times, presumed to think for, dictate to, and know better what suited colored people, than they knew for themselves”
• “A moral and mental, is as obnoxious as a physical servitude, and not to be tolerated; as the one may, eventually, lead to the other.”