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| excerpts from the book... The Philosophy & Opinions Of Marcus Garvey Or, Africa for the Africans Compiled by Amy Jacques Garvey |
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of
life.
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some
future time.
This is the day of racial activity, when each and every group of this great
human family must exercise its own initiative and influence in its own
protection, therefore, Negroes should be more determined to-day than
they have ever been, because the mighty forces of the world are
operating against non-organized groups of peoples, who are not
ambitious enough to protect their own interests.
Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious
end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star
among the constellation of nations.
The political readjustment of the world means that those who are not
sufficiently able, not sufficiently prepared, will be at the mercy of the
organized classes for another one or two hundred years.
Every student of Political Science, every student of Economics knows,
that the race can only be saved through a solid industrial foundation.
That the race can only be saved through political independence. Take
away industry from a race; take away political freedom from a race, and
you have a group of slaves.
Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a
centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people.
Before you have a government you must have the people. Without the
people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore,
an expression of the will of the people.
Confidence, conviction, action will cause us to be free men to-day.
The God of Isaac and the God of Jacob let Him exist for the race that
believes in the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. We Negroes believe
in the God of Ethiopia, the everlasting God - God the Father, God the Son
and God the Holy Ghost, the One God of all ages. That is the God in whom
we believe, but we shall worship Him through the spectacles of Ethiopia.
...And the faith that we have is a faith that will utimately take us back to the
ancient place, that ancient position that we once occupied, when Ethiopia
was in her glory.
...But with the Almighty Power of God and with the guidance and mercy of
our Blessed Lord we feel that one day Ethiopia shall stretch forth her
hand, and whether it be at the second coming or before, we shall all sing
our Hosannas, shout our praises to God for freedom, for liberty, for life.
There has never been a Movement where the Leader has not suffered for
the Cause, and not received the ingratitude of the people. I, like the rest,
am prepared for the consequence.
God acts indifferently and His plan and purpose is generally worked out
through the agency of human action. In His directed, inspired prophecy
He promised that Ethiopia's day would come, not by the world changing
towards us, but by our stretching out our hands unto Him.
Do not falter or faint by the wayside, but let us, with confidence in
ourselves and our God go forth in the call for service to our race and to
Ethiopia.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own
creative genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always
that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit , and Eternity our
measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb by using the
active intelligence of our own minds. Mind creates, and as much as we
desire in Nature we can have through the creation of our own minds.
Being at present the scientifically weaker race, you shall treat others only
as they treat you; but in your homes and everywhere possible you must
teach the higher development of science to your children; and be sure to
develop a race of scientists par excellence for in science and religion lie
our only hope to withstand the evil designs of modern materialism. Never
forget your God. Remember, we live, work and pray for the establishment
of a great and binding racial hierarchy, the founding of a racial empire
whose only natural, spiritual and political limits shall be God and "Africa, at
home and abroad."
Let us work and pray for the hastening of the day when "Ethiopia shall
stretch forth her hands unto God" and our race be lifted from the mire of
prejudice and injustice to the realm of freedom and true liberty.
With very best wishes, I have the honor to be,
Your obediant servant
MARCUS GARVEY
President-General
Univeral Negro Improvement Association.
life.
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some
future time.
This is the day of racial activity, when each and every group of this great
human family must exercise its own initiative and influence in its own
protection, therefore, Negroes should be more determined to-day than
they have ever been, because the mighty forces of the world are
operating against non-organized groups of peoples, who are not
ambitious enough to protect their own interests.
Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious
end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star
among the constellation of nations.
The political readjustment of the world means that those who are not
sufficiently able, not sufficiently prepared, will be at the mercy of the
organized classes for another one or two hundred years.
Every student of Political Science, every student of Economics knows,
that the race can only be saved through a solid industrial foundation.
That the race can only be saved through political independence. Take
away industry from a race; take away political freedom from a race, and
you have a group of slaves.
Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a
centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people.
Before you have a government you must have the people. Without the
people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore,
an expression of the will of the people.
Confidence, conviction, action will cause us to be free men to-day.
The God of Isaac and the God of Jacob let Him exist for the race that
believes in the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. We Negroes believe
in the God of Ethiopia, the everlasting God - God the Father, God the Son
and God the Holy Ghost, the One God of all ages. That is the God in whom
we believe, but we shall worship Him through the spectacles of Ethiopia.
...And the faith that we have is a faith that will utimately take us back to the
ancient place, that ancient position that we once occupied, when Ethiopia
was in her glory.
...But with the Almighty Power of God and with the guidance and mercy of
our Blessed Lord we feel that one day Ethiopia shall stretch forth her
hand, and whether it be at the second coming or before, we shall all sing
our Hosannas, shout our praises to God for freedom, for liberty, for life.
There has never been a Movement where the Leader has not suffered for
the Cause, and not received the ingratitude of the people. I, like the rest,
am prepared for the consequence.
God acts indifferently and His plan and purpose is generally worked out
through the agency of human action. In His directed, inspired prophecy
He promised that Ethiopia's day would come, not by the world changing
towards us, but by our stretching out our hands unto Him.
Do not falter or faint by the wayside, but let us, with confidence in
ourselves and our God go forth in the call for service to our race and to
Ethiopia.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own
creative genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always
that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit , and Eternity our
measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb by using the
active intelligence of our own minds. Mind creates, and as much as we
desire in Nature we can have through the creation of our own minds.
Being at present the scientifically weaker race, you shall treat others only
as they treat you; but in your homes and everywhere possible you must
teach the higher development of science to your children; and be sure to
develop a race of scientists par excellence for in science and religion lie
our only hope to withstand the evil designs of modern materialism. Never
forget your God. Remember, we live, work and pray for the establishment
of a great and binding racial hierarchy, the founding of a racial empire
whose only natural, spiritual and political limits shall be God and "Africa, at
home and abroad."
Let us work and pray for the hastening of the day when "Ethiopia shall
stretch forth her hands unto God" and our race be lifted from the mire of
prejudice and injustice to the realm of freedom and true liberty.
With very best wishes, I have the honor to be,
Your obediant servant
MARCUS GARVEY
President-General
Univeral Negro Improvement Association.
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