Goce Delčev, bulharsky Гоце Делчев, původním jménem Georgi Nikolov Delčev, bulharsky Георги Николов Делчев, makedonsky Ѓорѓи Николов Делчев byl bulharský revolucionář narozený na území dnešního Řecka , který působil zejména na území Makedonie a Thrákie. Za národního hrdinu je považován v Bulharsku a Makedonii.
“Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us.”
Letter to Nikola Maleševski (1 May 1899)
Kontext: Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us. It is, indeed, a pity, but what can we do, since we are Bulgarians and all suffer from one common disease. If this disease had not been present in our ancestors, from whom we inherited it, they would have never fallen under the sceptre of the Turkish Sultan...
“I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples.”
Quoted in Peyo Yavorov, Complete Works, vol. 2 (Sofia, 1977), p. 13
“I will teach you French so you can tell the world that you are macedonians”
Goce Delčev teaching in Bansko, Strumica, Macedonia.
Letter to Nikola Maleševski (1 May 1899)
