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Continued from page 19 – Philosophy and Opinions of
Marcus Garvey
To be prosperous in whatever we do is the sign of TRUE
WEALTH. We may be wealthy in not only having
money, but in spirit and health. It is the most helpful
agency toward a self-satisfying life. One lives, in an age
like this, nearer perfection by being wealthy than by
being poor. To the contended soul, wealth is the stepping
stone to perfection; to the miser it is the nearest avenue to
hell. I would prefer to be honestly wealthy, than
miserably poor.
To be free from temptation of other people's property is
to reflect the HONESTY of our own souls. There are but
few really honest people, in that between the thought and
the deed we make ourselves dishonest. The fellow who
steals, acts dishonestly. We can steal in thought as well as
in deed, therefore to be honest is a virtue that but few
indulge. To be honest is to be satisfied, having all,
wanting nothing. If you find yourself in such a state then
you are honest, if not the temptation of your soul is bound
to make you dishonest. This applies to the king and the
peasant alike.
All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the
industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro
as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and
seems to delight in filling only that place created for him
by the white man.
The Negro who lives on the patronage of philanthropists
is the most dangerous member of our society, because he
is willing to turn back the clock of progress when his
benefactors ask him so to do.
No race in the world is so just as to give others, for the
asking, a square deal in things economic, political and
social.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
No one knows when the hour of Africa's Redemption
cometh. It is in the wind. It is coming. One day, like a
storm, it will be here. When that day comes all Africa
will stand together.
Any sane man, race or nation that desires freedom must
first of all think in terms of blood. Why, even the
Heavenly Father tells us that "without the shedding of
blood there can be no remission of sins?" Then how in
the name of God, with history before us, do we expect to
redeem Africa without preparing ourselves—some of us
to die.
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess
to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength,
physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity
and civilization.
For over three hundred years the white man has been our
oppressor, and he naturally is not going to liberate us to
the higher freedom—the truer liberty—the truer
Democracy. We have to liberate ourselves.
Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has
a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade
you against your will, let no other race influence you
against your own.
The greatest weapon used against the Negro is
DISORGANIZATION.
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.
At no time within the last five hundred years can one
point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
The Negro has loved even under severest punishment. In
slavery the Negro loved his master, he safe-guarded his
home even when he further planned to enslave him. We
are not a race of Haters, but Lovers of humanity's Cause.
Mob violence and injustice have never helped a race or a
nation, and because of this knowledge as gathered from
the events of ages, we as a people in this new age desire
to love all mankind, not in the social sense, but in
keeping with the Divine Injunction "MAN LOVE THY
BROTHER."
PREPAREDNESS is the watch-word of this age. For us
as a race to remain, as we have been in the past—divided
among ourselves, parochializing, insularizing and
nationalizing our activities as subjects and citizens of the
many alien races and governments under which we live—
is but to hold ourselves in readiness for that great
catastrophe that is bound to come—that of racial
extermination, at the hands of the stronger race—the race
that will be fit to survive.
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-20- Traditional African Clinic August 2012