Quotes About Martin Delany

#1. you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??

Ryan North

#2. 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

#3. If the Force is life and the Yuuzhan Vong are alive and you cannot see them in the Force then is the problem with the Yuuzhan Vong or is it with your perceptions

Vergere to Luke

Walter Jon Williams

#4. Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more - O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

John Keats

#5. If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Martin Delany

#6. If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.

Bill Maher

#7. Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Martin Delany

#8. Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

Carl Jung

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

Sri Aurobindo

#12. Our task is to educate the human being in such a way that he or she can bring to expression in the right way that which is living in the whole human being, and on the other side that which puts him/her into the world in the right way.

Rudolf Steiner

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It just isn't good table manners to exclude someone from their own ridicule. That's why the juiciest side conversations occur at a table for one.

Bauvard

#20. No matter where I look, my walls are crumbling, and this damned girl keeps presenting me with the most dangerous element of all.
Hope.

Lauren Layne