Category: А13 Родољубни изјави

Macedonia is the common homeland of all those who live here.

•  ‘The Macedonian Agitation’ (1901) • We young people have therefore been endeavoring for some years past to separate the Macedonian cause from Bulgarian domestic politics. If the rulers of the Principality now declare that they cannot tolerate us as a State within the State, it shows that we have at least succeeded in emancipating ourselves from the pernicious influence…

Should the Russians be happy or sad because in Macedonia the indigenous population, who call themselves Macedonians by the old name, are raising their voices? According to our personal opinion it would be just to give at least moral support to this numerous tribe that speaks a separate Slavic dialect and has its own history, not less interesting than the…

Only a strong resistance on our side can save us from other people’s upheavals. … We need to unite, to unite the forces in one power – a people’s power, if we want to preserve the future of our homeland. It should be the aspiration of every Macedonian, wherever he may be.

Our people were only ‘Macedonian Christians,’ and then, when Greek propaganda developed they became ‘Macedonian Christian Slavs’. It was all the same to us which Christian country would help us to free ourselves from the Turks. I was born in Bitola. There were several grammar-schools in Bitola: Turkish, Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian. It was all the same to us, the…

The Macedonian Committee is not an organization of irresponsible adventurers or ex-brigands, but represents the intelligence and patriotism of Young Macedonia. It is led by educated, earnest young men who have fled from Turkish persecution into Greece, Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria to fight for liberty of the fatherland, Macedonia.

• 1905 • We should be wary of any direct or indirect attempts by any government to become involved in our affairs as much because of the danger of a bad interpretation from outside as from the point of view of our ideology. We should be deliberately careful and wary in our relations with official Bulgaria because it is a…

I am not a Bulgarian, I am a Macedonian, a Macedonian Slav.

Macedonia today is again enslaved and divided among the three Balkan states: Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece.

We, the undersigned Macedonians, from the bottom of our hearts wish that the complaints of our brothers in northern Epirus may be remedied, since the Macedonians are in the same situation under the bondage of the Greek authorities. We demand the freedom to speak freely in our Macedonian tongue, to open our own schools so that our children will be…

Everyone from outside this country who will give us our freedom, will then take our land [Macedonia] from us.

We the Macedonians do not suffer as much by the Turks … as by the Greeks, the Bulgarians and the Serbs, who have set upon us like vultures upon a carcass in this tortured land and want to split it up. Повеќе: МарПедиа

I was born a Macedonian … It was written by God for my country to suffer from the Greeks, so they do not give us peace even today.

A nation is called a people who are of one kind and who speak the same language and who live and associate with one another and who have the same customs and songs and celebrations – these people are called a nation, and the place in which they live is called the fatherland of that nation. So too the Macedonians…

Sometimes around Goce [Delchev] we felt like one, socialists, anarchists and nationalists, because we thought and acted only as Macedonians, everyone next to another and everyone as one.   Macedonia for the Macedonians! This idea, nevertheless, remained a Bulgarian idea until it disappeared even among the Bulgarians. Neither the Greeks, nor the Turks, nor any other nationality in Macedonia accepted…