For man to know himself is for him to feel that for him there is no human master. For him nature is his servant and whatsoever He wills in nature that shall be his reward. If He wills to be a pygmy or surf or slave that shall he be. If he wills to be a real man in possession of the things common to man then he shall be his own sovereign.......... To me a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign Lord. As for the individual man, so of the individual race. This feeling makes man so courageous so bold as to make it impossible for his brother to intrude upon his rights. So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man. The man who will never say die, the man who will never give up, the man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself, the man who will not blame God, who will not blame nature, who will not blame faith for his condition, but the man who will go out and make conditions to suit himself. O how disgusting life becomes when on every hand you hear people, who bear your image who bear your resemblance, telling you that they cannot make it, that fate is against them, that they cannot get a chance. If 400,000,000 Negroes can only get to know themselves to know that in them is a sovereign power, is an authority that is absolute, then in the next 24 hours we would have a new race, we would have a nation, an empire, resurrected not from the will of others to see us rise, but from our own determination to rise, irrespective of what the world thinks. The Honorable Marcus Garvey
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:11:59 +0000
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