Lyuben Karavelov

thumb|Lyuben Karavelov Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov (Bulgarian: Любен Стойчев Каравелов; 1834 – 21 January 1879) was a Bulgarian writer, journalist, revolutionary and a prominent figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. Quotes Don't raise your head so high holy Europe, don't be so proud of your civilization and your Christianity when you don't even have a pure heart or a clear conscience. Quoted in The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (2011), p. 25. If Russia comes to liberate, she will be received with great sympathy; but if she comes to rule, she will find many enemies. Quoted in Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 1879-1886 (2022), p. vii Anybody who will not agree that a Turk is more inhuman than a mad dog is a Turkophile. Quoted in A History of Bulgarian Literature 865–1944 (2019), p. 74 The year 1848 awakened all the European nations that were half-dead and half-asleep, as well as us, the Bulgarians. From that moment on, the Bulgarians rose up and their future lit up with eye-pleasing and joyous rays, and a secretive or, to put it plainly, instinctive feeling told them that it was time to free themselves from Turkish and Greek tyranny. Quoted in Hadzhi Nicho: Subrani suchinenija v 9 toma (1965), p. 290 and Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), pp. 218-219 Revolution, revolution, and only revolution is our salvation. Quoted in Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), p. 221 The person who wishes to work for the wellbeing of his nation should forget about himself. Quoted in Izbrani proizvedeniia, vol. I, (1954), p . 441 and Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), p. 221 The brotherhood of nations means the death of the tyrants. Quoted in Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), p. 222 External links Category:1834 births Category:1879 deaths Category:Authors from Bulgaria Category:Journalists from Bulgaria Category:Revolutionaries Category:Atheists Category:Anti-monarchists Category:Women's rights activists