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Constantine Stephanove, San Francisco Chronicle, Pg. (1901.07.08)
I am proud to be known as a Greek, but in truth I am not one. I am a Macedonian
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-Ilinden Organization (1924)
Let them once and for all understand that Bulgarian state nationalism, for which they want to frequently be praised, from 1890 to the present, and Macedonian patriotism are two different things, and not only do they have nothing in common, but they are in direct confrontation with one another. Therefore, all the actions of the Bulgarian government, directed against the…
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Dimitri Stefanov (1925.01)
I am a Macedonian Nationalist and I love my mother intensely. It was only to serve her that I executed this renegade am glad I was chosen to sacrifice myself.
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1926.04-05_Oliver C. Harvey
The Slavophone population of Serbian Macedonia definitely regard themselves as distinct from the Serbs. If asked their nationality they say that they are Macedonians, and they speak the Macedonian dialect. • • • The inhabitants here [Aegean Macedonia] are no more than the Macedonians of Serbia – they speak Macedonian they call themselves Macedonians.
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1921_Isaiah Bowman – ‘Constantinople and the Balkans, What Really Happened at Paris’, Pg. 170
Neither Greece nor Serbia is expected to give up Macedonian territory for a possible future Macedonia. … It is therefore improbable that the Macedonian question will be revived except through the possible cruelties of Greeks and Serbs in their treatment of the Macedonians.
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Yane Sandanski
• 1904 • We do not want a Bulgarian Macedonia, but rather a Macedonia for the Macedonians, a Macedonia that is free from tyranny. • 1912 • I will drink to a free and autonomous Macedonia, for which the united Balkan nations fought and suffered so much. • 1908_L’Italia all’Estro • Macedonians will free Macedonia without the interference of…
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Nikola Pushkarov (1919)
You, Macedonian, do not listen to them because their words are deceptions. The Balkan monarchies know very well the price of your land. They are not fighting for your wellbeing or for your freedom; instead, they are fighting for the wealth of your land and your enslavement. … Stand under the flag of autonomy because only under this flag will…
1906.11.27_St. Louis Post – Dispatch, Pg. 2
The Macedonians and the Hellenes, or native Greeks, engage in constant reprisals which sometimes amount to border warfare.
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1922_Edmond Bouchie de Belle – ‘La Macedoine et les Macedoniens’, 80, IV, 303, Paris
In the district of Ostrovo/Bitola, nine times out of ten these people, despite being the subject of dispute by three adjoining countries – Serbia, Bulgarian and Greece – would reply in response to the question as to their nationality that they were Macedonians. „… Во подрачјето на Острво/Битола девет од десет од овие луѓе кои и покрај што биле предмет…
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1869_Saint Paul, Volume 2, Pg. 111
Gloomy and grave, the Macedonian peasant has none of the braggadocio and trifling spirit of the Hellenic peasant. The women, beautiful and chaste, work in the fields like the men…They are a good, strong race, laborious, sedentary, loving their country, and full of promise for their future.
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1926.04_R.A. Gallop – ‘Conditions in Macedonia’
• 1926.04.19 • The Macedonian Slavs considered and called themselves ‘Makedonci’. • 1926.04.26 • Those people whom I had met were insistent on calling themselves neither Serbs nor Bulgars, but Macedonians. There seemed to be no love lost for the Bulgarians.
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Goce Delchev
While my shoulder carries a gun, Macedonia is beyond the reach of the Bulgarian officer. • • • We Macedonians have many enemies, and must combat them all, wherever they come from. In the first place the External Committee are our enemies. They are loyal servants of King Ferdinand, and even though they are Macedonians, do not work for…
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1919.01.04_Sister Augustine Bewicke
The inhabitants of Macedonia are in the great majority Slavs; they call themselves Macedonians, and what they desire and what we ardently desire for them is an autonomy under European control.
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Bistriski, Fourth Congress of the Macedonian National Association of America, Detroit, Michigan, (1934)
Why are we Macedonians a separate nation? The answer to this question is, more than all others, of great political significance. It is well known how Bulgarian as well as Serbian and Greek imperialism deny the existence of the Macedonian nation. According to the first of these, the Macedonians are the ‘best part of the Bulgarian nation’. According to the…
1871_Petko Slaveykov
We have many times heard from the Macedonists that they are not Bulgarians but Macedonians, descendants of the Ancient Macedonians.