"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."
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Martin Delany
Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism.
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