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Call me a thinker, a teacher, call me anything that is of the earth, but a god I cannot think that I am one, or can ever be.

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

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

Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

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)

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