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"Self determination or subservience– Power, the real issue:
The slave may become a lover of his master, and learn to forgive him for continual deeds of maltreatment and abuse;
just as the Spaniel would couch and fondle at the feet that kick him; because he has been taught to reverence them, and consequently, becomes adapted in body and mind to his condition.
Even the shrubbery-loving Canary, and lofty-soaring Eagle, may be tamed to the cage, and learn to love it from habit of confinement.
It has been so with us in our position among our oppressors; we have been so prone to such positions, that we have learned to love them.
We have learned to depend on them, and consequently lost faith in ourselves and our capabilities. We have become accoustomed to, and even comfortable in our enslavement.
But this is a false and dangerous comfort. The fact remains as long as we remain subservient to the european, the very existence of our people, the fathers and mothers of humanity, and civilisation, is in peril.
It may not be easy, and may even cost us our very lives, but no price is too much to pay to regain our respect, dignity, freedom, self reliance and self determination.
Freedom is forever preferable to domestication, and servitude.
These great truths, however unpleasant, must be brought before the minds of our people in its true and proper light, as we have been too delicate about them, and too long concealed them for fear of giving offence. It would have been infinitely better for our race if these facts had been presented before us half a century ago, we would have been now proportionably benefitted by it."
- Martin R Delaney (Paraphrased)
The slave may become a lover of his master, and learn to forgive him for continual deeds of maltreatment and abuse;
just as the Spaniel would couch and fondle at the feet that kick him; because he has been taught to reverence them, and consequently, becomes adapted in body and mind to his condition.
Even the shrubbery-loving Canary, and lofty-soaring Eagle, may be tamed to the cage, and learn to love it from habit of confinement.
It has been so with us in our position among our oppressors; we have been so prone to such positions, that we have learned to love them.
We have learned to depend on them, and consequently lost faith in ourselves and our capabilities. We have become accoustomed to, and even comfortable in our enslavement.
But this is a false and dangerous comfort. The fact remains as long as we remain subservient to the european, the very existence of our people, the fathers and mothers of humanity, and civilisation, is in peril.
It may not be easy, and may even cost us our very lives, but no price is too much to pay to regain our respect, dignity, freedom, self reliance and self determination.
Freedom is forever preferable to domestication, and servitude.
These great truths, however unpleasant, must be brought before the minds of our people in its true and proper light, as we have been too delicate about them, and too long concealed them for fear of giving offence. It would have been infinitely better for our race if these facts had been presented before us half a century ago, we would have been now proportionably benefitted by it."
- Martin R Delaney (Paraphrased)
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