Philosophies of The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of
life. With confidence you have won even before you have started."

Marcus Garvey
Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery."

Marcus Garvey
The Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will."

Marcus Garvey
The Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey

[Akyeame Kwame]

"The whiteman has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way. The whiteman's propaganda has made him the master of the world. And those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishment of an African Empire -- so strong and powerful, as to compel the respect of mankind, but we in our life-time can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility within another generation."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"In life or death I shall come back to you to serve even as I have served before. In life I shall be the same: in death I shall be a terror to the foes of Negro liberty. If death has power, then count on me in death to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be. If I may come in an earthquake, or a cyclone, or plague, or pestilence...then be assured that I shall never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you. Would I not go to hell a million times for you? Would I not...walk the earth forever for you? Would I not lose the whole world and eternity for you? Would I not cry forever...for you? Then, why be sad? Cheer up, and be assured that if it takes a million years the sins of our enemies shall visit the millionth generation of those that hinder and oppress us..."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Some of the men of the Negro race aggravate the race question because they force the white man to conclude that to educate a black man, to give him opportunities, is but to fit him to be a competitor for the hand of his woman; hence the eternal race question.
But not all black men are willing to commit race suicide and to abhor their race for the companionship of another. There are hundreds of millions of us black men who are proud of our skins and to us the African Empire will not be a Utopia, neither will it be dangerous nor fail to serve our best interests, because we realize that like the leopard we cannot change our skins.
The men of the highest morals, highest character and noblest pride are to be found among the masses of the Negro race who love their women with as much devotion as white men love theirs."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"The world has made being Black a crime and I have felt it in common with men who suffer like me, and instead of making it a crime I hope to make it a virtue."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Nationhood is the only means by which a modern
civilization can completely protect itself.
Independence of nationality, independence of
government, is the means of protecting not only the
individual but the group. Nationhood is the highest
ideal of all peoples."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"The evil of internal division is wrecking our
existence as a people, and if we do not seriously and
quickly move in the direction of a readjustment, it
simply means that our doom becomes imminently
conclusive."

[Akyeame Kwame]

POWER

POWER is the only argument that satisfies man.

Except the individual, the race or the nation that has POWER is exclusive, it means that that individual, race or nation will be bound by the will of the other who possesses this great qualification...

That kind of power that will stand out signally, so that other races and nations can see, and if they will not see, then FEEL.

Man is not satisfied or moved by prayers or petitions, but every man is moved by that power of authority which forces him to do even against his will.

Force

The powers opposed to Negro progress will not be influenced in the slightest by mere verbal protests on our art. They realize only too well that protests of this kind contain nothing but the breath expended in making them.

They also realize that their success in enslaving and dominating the darker portion of humanity was due solely to the element of FORCE employed (in the majority of cases this was accomplished by force of arms.

Pressure of course may assert itself in other forms, but in the last analysis of whatever influence is brought to bear against the powers opposed to Negro progress must contain the element of FORCE in order to accomplish its purpose, since it is apparent that this is the only element they recognize."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.

The civilization of today is gone drunk with its power and by such it seeks through injustice, fraud and lies to crush the unfortunate. But if I am apparently crushed by the system of influence and misdirected power, my cause shall rise again to plague the conscience of the corrupt. For this I am satisfied, and for you, I repeat, I am glad to suffer and even die. Again, I say, cheer up, for the better days are ahead. I shall write the history that will inspire the millions that are coming and leave the posterity of our enemies to reckon with the hosts for the deeds of their fathers."

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Stand on your own two black feet and fight like hell for your place in the world."

- Amy Jaques Garvey