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| Marcus Garvey statue, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
“Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to
fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of
Marcus Garvey.”
~Kwame Nkrumah
"It has warmed us that so many of our brothers from across the seas are with us. We take their presence here as a manifestation of the keen interest in our struggle for a free Africa. We must never forget that they are a part of us. These sons and daughters of Africa were taken away from our shores and, despite the centuries which have separated us, they have not forgotten their ancestral links. Many of them made no small contribution to the cause of freedom, A name that springs immediately to mind in this connection is Marcus Garvey. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality."
"Everytime you see another nation on the African continent become independent, you know that Marcus Garvey is alive. It was Marcus Garvey's philosophy of
Pan-Africanism that initiated the entire Freedom Movement which brought about the independence of African (and Caribbean) nations."
~Malcolm X
"When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home...brandishing their shotguns and rifles the shouted for my father to come out...The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we had better get out of town because 'the good Christian White people' were not going to stand for my father's spreading among the 'good' Negroes of Omaha with the 'Back-to-Africa' preachings of Marcus Garvey."
"Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united."
"They didn’t want Garvey to speak in New
Orleans. We had a delegation to go to the mayor, and the next night,
they allowed him to come. And we all was armed. Everybody had bags of
ammunition, too. So when Garvey came in, we applauded, and the police
were lined man to man along the line of each bench. So Mr. Garvey said, 'My friends, I want to apologize for not speaking to you last night. But
the reason I didn’t was because the mayor of the
city of New Orleans
committed himself to act as a stooge for the police department to
prevent me from speaking.' And the police jumped up and said, 'I’ll run
you in.' When he did this, everybody jumped up on the benches and pulled
out their guns and just held the guns up in the air and said, 'Speak,
Garvey, speak!' And Garvey said, 'As I was saying,' and he went on and
repeated what he had said before, and the police filed out the hall like
little puppy dogs with their tails behind them. So that was radical
enough."
~Queen Mother Audley Moore
"...the first man, on a mass scale to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny.”
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| Jomo Kenyatta |
"In 1921, Kenyan Nationalists, unable to read, would gather round a reader of Garvey's newspaper,
The Negro World, and to listen to an article two or three times. Then they would run through the forest carefully to repeat the whole, which they had memorized, to Africans hungry for some doctrine which lifted them from the servile consciousness in which Africans lived."
~Jomo Kenyatta
"Marcus Garvey is a prophet..."
~Bob Marley
"I & I will never forget no way/ they sold Marcus Gavey for rice..." -in the song
So Much Things to Say
was born on August the seventeenth, and so this is a blessed day in my Journey. On this day a man was born in 1887 who would affect the way I perceive my SELF in relation to my community and my place in the world
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