Skip to content

No people could despise its own language, customs, and institutions and hope to avoid national death.

— J. E. Casely Hayford Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

Another quote →

Topics

Communication

More quotes by J. E. Casely Hayford

There has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves, or carved out their own opportunity.

Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.

Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

Love and Light dwelt together in the highest heaven.

Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

Mutual understanding, the true basis of all happy unions.

Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

Who says he is equal with God?
Man is to-day, to-morrow he is not,
Iam is from eternity to eternity.

Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

All J. E. Casely Hayford quotes →

You may also like

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Walter Scott Marmion (1808)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: J. E. Casely Hayford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.