Let us teach our children from their infancy—for they need to be taught—that no curse except that which every day follows the impenitent, hangs upon us; that it is the force of circumstances, induced, as we have endeavored to show, by our iniquities, that keep us down; and that we have as much right as any other people to strive to rise to the very zenith of national glory.


A Vindication of the African Race (1857)

Edward Wilmot Blyden Quotes

Let us teach our children from their infancy—for they need to be taught—that no curse except that which every day follows the impenitent, hangs...

Let us teach our children from their infancy—for they need to be taught—that no curse except that which every day follows the impenitent, hangs...

Let us teach our children from their infancy—for they need to be taught—that no curse except that which every day follows the impenitent, hangs...

Let us teach our children from their infancy—for they need to be taught—that no curse except that which every day follows the impenitent, hangs...