Edward Wilmot Blyden Quotes

• I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

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  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Race   Greek   Century  

  Edward Wilmot Blyden (1976). “Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden”

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• Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.

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  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Spiritual   Simple   Agency  

  "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race".

  1939

• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

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  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Being Yourself   Character   Giving  

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