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| Europe today is bankrupt and cannot advance much capital for the development of African industries,and therefore they are trying to interest American capitalists in the exploitation of the wealth of the great Continent. There is absolutely no reason why the 400,000,000 Negroes of the world should not make a desperate effort to re-conquer our motherland from the white man,in that,whether he be English,French,German,Italian or Spanish,his one and only interest is selfish exploitation and domination. If native Africans are unable to appreciate the value of their own country from the standard of Western civilization,then it is for us,their brothers,to take to them the knowledge and information that they need to help to develop the country for the common good. Why should we allow Belgium,Portugal Spain,Italy,France and England to build up and rehabilitate their bankrupt nations and civilization out of the wealth and resources of our country? They have no room for us in their countries, and surely we have absolutely no room for them as exploiters in our country. We have allowed cowardice and fear to take possession of us for a long time,but that will never take us anywhere.It is no use being afraid of these nations and peoples.They are human beings like ourselves.We have blood,feelings, passions and ambitions just as they have.Why, therefore should we allow them to trample down our rights and deprive us of our liberty? Negroes everywhere must get that courage of manhood that will enable them to srike out, irrespective of who the enemy is, and demand those things that are ours by right-moral,legal and devine. Marcus Mosiah Garvey April 15,1923 |
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| Distinguished Son of Ethiopia |
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| The native Africans unfortunately have not been schooled in the appreciation of the valueable mineral wealth of Africa.They have not been schooled in the methods of exploiting mineral wealth.For a long time they were unable to appreciate the value of diamonds untill the white man went there with his scientific commercial knowledge and took away the diamond fields of Kimberley,Joha- nnesburg and the entire Union of South Africa,where the greatest quantity of diamonds is found. The native Africans once owned all the wealth of South Africa,but Cecil Rhodes and other white men robbed and exploited them,and today the diamond fields are owned by white men,who have practically reduced the native Africans(who onced owned the lands)to slavery,and by the system of forced labor,compelled them to mine the diamonds and other minerals and to live on reservations,herded beings.The British Empire today owes its present financial existance to the wealth which has been recruited from Africa,the wealth that we Negroes could have controlled fifty years ago,when there was not so much interest in Africa. Marcus Mosiah Garvey April 15,1923 |
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| We are living in a civilization that is highly developed. We are living in a world that is scientifically arranged in which everything done by those who control is done through system;proper arrangement,proper organization, and among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called "PROPAGANDA". Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda-Propaganda to destroy our hopes,our ambitions and our confidence in self. |
| 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 a people.Without the people there can be no government.The government must be therefore,an expression of the will of the people. Rt.Hon.Marcus Garvey |
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| "Life is that existance that is given to man to live for a purpose,to live his own satisfaction and pleasure,providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obediance and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired." Mr. Garvey |
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