Marcus on Shaping Our Destiny

[Islandman]

"Being satisfied to drink of the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others, but when of our own initiative we strike out to build industries, governments, and ultimately empires, then and only then will we as a race prove to our Creator and to man in general that we are fit to survive and capable of shaping our own destiny."

Marcus Mosiah Garvey

[Don1]

Dis too powerful fi nuff peeple deal wid.... dem preffa concentrate pon trivia ....dat safer,,,, no thinking required

[Islandman]

I tell you this bredda was so far ahead of his time in his thinking.

I can see why J Edgar Hoover had to shut him down.

[Don1]

So far ahead that 80+ years later we're still decades from catching up to Garvey

Most of us don't even know the profound difference between Integration and Black Nationalism

We are quite pathetic as a people...and apathetic