"We have to work courageously, organizing and arming ourselves well enough to take the burden of the struggle upon our own shoulders, without counting on outside help. External intervention is not desirable from the point of view of our cause. Our aim, our ideal is autonomy for Macedonia and the Adrianople region, and we must also bring into the struggle the other peoples who live in these two provinces as well... We, the Bulgarians of Macedonia and Adrianople, must not lose sight of the fact that there are other nationalities and states who are vitally interested in the solution of this question. Any intervention by Bulgaria would provoke intervention by the neighbouring states as well, and could result in Macedonia being torn apart. That is why the peoples inhabiting these two provinces must themselves, through common effort and sacrifice, win their own freedom and independence, within the frontiers of an autonomous Macedonian-Adrianople state, counting only on the material and moral support of Bulgaria and the Great Powers."
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Quoted in Mercia MacDermott, Freedom Or Death, the Life of Gotsé Delchev (London & West Nyack, 1978), p. 232
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Gotse Delchev
Georgi Nikolov Delchev (Macedonian/Bulgarian: Ѓорѓи/Георги Николов Делчев; 4 February 1872 – 4 May 1903), known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev, was a prominent Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in Macedonia and Thrace.
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