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very hard for us to accomplish now:
It is the duty of man to make his knowledge so complete in life , so as to make it impossible for any man to take advantage of him. This is why you find men always educating themselves inside and outside of the classroom, finding out everything that is new. I feel that you in here want to know what is new so that nobody will have you at a
disadvantage. The man who knows walks the world a colossal success. Sometimes you find him an Edison or a Marconi; but the man who doesn’t know walks around and begs, because he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know the laws of thrift, he doesn’t know the laws of industry, commerce, state: he doesn’t know anything about the political system; he is ignorant of everything and yet God never made a fool. Man has made himself a fool. It is the duty of man to learn all of nature’s ways if he is to boss nature and be the sovereign of the world. A king must know his empire, otherwise his empire will rule him. We have so many fools in the world and those are the people others feed on.
You will ask why does God allow these things to go on. God only recognizes man. He
doesn’t recognize rich and poor, particularly when he places him in a world that was here before man came here, knowing well that man would want things for his satisfaction and happiness. When he made man, He made him to enjoy these things and if man doesn’t enjoy these things, it isn’t the fault of God, because God is intelligent and man is a part of God. Do not think your suffering is any virtue that is going to take you into heaven. Your misfortune is the result of your lazy mentality. God did not bless the lazy servant; He cursed and drove away the lazy servant. If man goes around pining and wailing and making himself a useless creature there is no reward for him but his death.
What I have to tell you could not be told in one hour, because of the peculiarity of your community. Ignorance will always make the attempt to hold back intelligence, but intelligence will always ride over ignorance and find its goal. Today the world is trying to
Save itself through intelligence of the intelligence of visionaries who can look down the ages. The masses of men are always ignorant because they are too lazy to think. The masses are more concerned with their stomachs, and you will find the average man
thinking of spending more on his meat and sugar, than even intelligently budgeting every ten cents for the improvement of his intelligence out of a dollar. The men who eat up everything they lay their hands on go to their graves unwept, unsung, unhonoured. They eat themselves into all form of diseases and so we bury them by thousands every year, but men who feed their minds more than their stomachs are the men who have reduced life to a science. They live happier, they live longer, they get more joy out of
life .
What is the matter with your mind? Are you different from Rockefeller who discovered oil and became the richest man in the world outside of Henry Ford, the poor boy who visualized the use of propelled mechanism and is the richest man in the world today. You are the same soul, then why should God be blamed down here by you when you are no good. Life is no joke, it is a positive reality. How many of us are living up to the dignity of men? There are some men who are of no use in the world because they do not exercise the any more thoughtfulness about the world than a sheep or a cow. There are
Some men who could not give a sensible answer to a question because they do not know what is happening and a sheep wouldn’t know either. Isn’t it a slander on God for man to be so ignorant when God gave him intelligence!
Go home tonight, pray to your Lord to reveal what you are best fitted for, so that you may give the world something new, so that you may rise next morning and be a new genius that may baffle a startled and wondering world. Do not live in the world and pass out like chickens and sheep. When you die leave behind you the memories of men, the memories of Shakespeare, Mrs. Hernans, Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Bismarck, Caesar, Mussolini, Hitler, Mckenzie-King. Have you ever thought of the fact that as old as the world is, according to the religionists, it is six thousand years old, that billions and trillions of people have passed out of the world, and since Adam came here you will find only about thirty-six names written in history having done something. From Moses to Mussolini the men who have stood out, the Wolfes at Quebec, the Washingtons, the Bismarcks, the Sir Christopher Wrens. Names of men of men like Moses, like Abraham, like Solomon and David are fresh in the in the minds of people as if they died yesterday.
What are you going to do? Are you going to achieve that greatness to leave behind you in marble, in steel, because you made a contribution. Again I ask what contribution are you going to make to your race , to your world? The Universal Negro Improvement is asking you to think it over so that a thousand years from now it will be written in the records that a great Negro man or woman came from Halifax who started great continental systems and built the loftiest monument in commerce and industry.
The above was a speech by Marcus Garvey.
We like to speak of other countries with their wealth: Did we stop to think of the sacrifices and hardships they went through to succeed ?(unnuh mussi tink ah so easy parson get him gown) Even the US had to suffer hardships before she became an empire. We on the other want the luxuries of this world without lifting straw. They few very well know this, hence they played to the flute in ourchildren's ears.
It is the duty of man to make his knowledge so complete in life , so as to make it impossible for any man to take advantage of him. This is why you find men always educating themselves inside and outside of the classroom, finding out everything that is new. I feel that you in here want to know what is new so that nobody will have you at a
disadvantage. The man who knows walks the world a colossal success. Sometimes you find him an Edison or a Marconi; but the man who doesn’t know walks around and begs, because he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know the laws of thrift, he doesn’t know the laws of industry, commerce, state: he doesn’t know anything about the political system; he is ignorant of everything and yet God never made a fool. Man has made himself a fool. It is the duty of man to learn all of nature’s ways if he is to boss nature and be the sovereign of the world. A king must know his empire, otherwise his empire will rule him. We have so many fools in the world and those are the people others feed on.
You will ask why does God allow these things to go on. God only recognizes man. He
doesn’t recognize rich and poor, particularly when he places him in a world that was here before man came here, knowing well that man would want things for his satisfaction and happiness. When he made man, He made him to enjoy these things and if man doesn’t enjoy these things, it isn’t the fault of God, because God is intelligent and man is a part of God. Do not think your suffering is any virtue that is going to take you into heaven. Your misfortune is the result of your lazy mentality. God did not bless the lazy servant; He cursed and drove away the lazy servant. If man goes around pining and wailing and making himself a useless creature there is no reward for him but his death.
What I have to tell you could not be told in one hour, because of the peculiarity of your community. Ignorance will always make the attempt to hold back intelligence, but intelligence will always ride over ignorance and find its goal. Today the world is trying to
Save itself through intelligence of the intelligence of visionaries who can look down the ages. The masses of men are always ignorant because they are too lazy to think. The masses are more concerned with their stomachs, and you will find the average man
thinking of spending more on his meat and sugar, than even intelligently budgeting every ten cents for the improvement of his intelligence out of a dollar. The men who eat up everything they lay their hands on go to their graves unwept, unsung, unhonoured. They eat themselves into all form of diseases and so we bury them by thousands every year, but men who feed their minds more than their stomachs are the men who have reduced life to a science. They live happier, they live longer, they get more joy out of
life .
What is the matter with your mind? Are you different from Rockefeller who discovered oil and became the richest man in the world outside of Henry Ford, the poor boy who visualized the use of propelled mechanism and is the richest man in the world today. You are the same soul, then why should God be blamed down here by you when you are no good. Life is no joke, it is a positive reality. How many of us are living up to the dignity of men? There are some men who are of no use in the world because they do not exercise the any more thoughtfulness about the world than a sheep or a cow. There are
Some men who could not give a sensible answer to a question because they do not know what is happening and a sheep wouldn’t know either. Isn’t it a slander on God for man to be so ignorant when God gave him intelligence!
Go home tonight, pray to your Lord to reveal what you are best fitted for, so that you may give the world something new, so that you may rise next morning and be a new genius that may baffle a startled and wondering world. Do not live in the world and pass out like chickens and sheep. When you die leave behind you the memories of men, the memories of Shakespeare, Mrs. Hernans, Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Bismarck, Caesar, Mussolini, Hitler, Mckenzie-King. Have you ever thought of the fact that as old as the world is, according to the religionists, it is six thousand years old, that billions and trillions of people have passed out of the world, and since Adam came here you will find only about thirty-six names written in history having done something. From Moses to Mussolini the men who have stood out, the Wolfes at Quebec, the Washingtons, the Bismarcks, the Sir Christopher Wrens. Names of men of men like Moses, like Abraham, like Solomon and David are fresh in the in the minds of people as if they died yesterday.
What are you going to do? Are you going to achieve that greatness to leave behind you in marble, in steel, because you made a contribution. Again I ask what contribution are you going to make to your race , to your world? The Universal Negro Improvement is asking you to think it over so that a thousand years from now it will be written in the records that a great Negro man or woman came from Halifax who started great continental systems and built the loftiest monument in commerce and industry.
The above was a speech by Marcus Garvey.
We like to speak of other countries with their wealth: Did we stop to think of the sacrifices and hardships they went through to succeed ?(unnuh mussi tink ah so easy parson get him gown) Even the US had to suffer hardships before she became an empire. We on the other want the luxuries of this world without lifting straw. They few very well know this, hence they played to the flute in ourchildren's ears.
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