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Wherever there is arbitrary rule, there must be necessity, on the part of the dominant classes, superiority be assumed. To assume superiority, is to deny the equality of others.

— Martin Delany The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852)

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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.

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852)

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.

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852)

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

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