Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Martin Robison Delany Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (1861)
University Pamphlets: A Series of Four Tracts on National Polity (1870)
Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color with an Archaeological Compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian Civilization (1879)
Introduction to Four Months in Liberia by William Nesbitt (1855). Delany was convicted and fined $650 — a huge amount at the time. In 1835 he attended his first National Convention of Men of Color held in Philadelphia since 1831.

Trained as an assistant and a physician he treated patients during the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsburgh when many doctors and residents fled the city. Martin Robison Delany (May 6 1812 – January 24 1885) was an African-American abolitionist journalist physician and writer arguably the first proponent of American black nationalism.