Let us have an education, ...

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

Quotes from the same author

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
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