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

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

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