Marcus Mosiah Garvey: African Fundamentalism

Marcus Mosiah Garvey: African Fundamentalism

“We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honor black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history.”

“Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves?”

“We must inspire a literature and promulgate a doctrine of our own without any apologies to the powers that be. The right is ours and God’s. Let contrary sentiment and cross opinions go to the winds.”

“Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war. Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you.”

“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.”

Source: Marcus Mosiah Garvey, “African Fundamentalism”, The Negro World, 6 June 1925.

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