The Daily Garvey for September 27, 2009

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Today's message continues the essay “Look Up, You Mighty Race” By Marcus Garvey published in Blackman Magazine 2 (September-October 1936):3-4.

ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY

We as a people must therefore assume our responsibility of doing as we think; yes, doing as we think. The whole world in its civilized system is a product of thought. The evils of our civilization are the results of evil thought – jealousy, malice, hatred, prejudice – all tending to destroy the white man, because he has misapplied and mis-used the powerful will that shapes things. In the new civilization of the African, his will must be in keeping with all that is righteous and good, because it is only righteousness in Nature that prevails and continues. All unrighteousness sooner or later falls as twentieth century civilization is to fall through the corrupt machinations of the European mind.

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The Daily Garvey for October 4, 2009

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Today's message comes from page 139 and 140 of “More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”  By Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey, and Essien Udosen Essien-Udom.  This was originally an Editorial from “The Blackman” (newspaper) dated June 6, 1929.

“Africa must be redeemed.”
The theme is inspiring.  It is capturing devotion, not of Africa's sons alone, but of all nations of earth.  Among them those who even today put them to shame and heap upon them obloquy and disgrace.  The forces of their deliverance are working with subtlety that press into service the very emotions of prejudice, hate and selfishness; and in a wonderful way are harnessing them to the worthy motives of sympathy and justice.  Thus the African of his own vastly improved resources yoked to the unwonted aid of his foes, sees before his eyes the world awakened, to the fact of his approaching deliverance from bondage.  His cause assumes commanding evidence, and demands tribute from friend and foe alike.  The Redemption of Africa is a great commission, not only to recover Africa for the Africans, but to rescue the souls of Africa's sons and daughters from social, political, economical and spiritual bondage, and place them on a ground of vantage to secure the true uplift of the race, and the general good of the human family.  The cause is profound in its depths, immense in its extent, and dazzling in the heights of its ambition.  It has reached the point at which it becomes suicidal to neglect and aimlessly drift from its purpose, criminal to oppose its progress.

The Daily Garvey for September 22, 2009

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Today's message continues the essay “Look Up, You Mighty Race” By Marcus Garvey published in Blackman Magazine 2 (September-October 1936):3-4.  

The Present 

The Present of which we speak is that which has come out of the past, with all the experiments and improvements upon that which remains history (creditable to the one race of the other), including our own; but this present is complicated. Its systems are in conflict, and no one seems able to forecast the evolution of any future more pleasant than this present. In fact, everything seems gloomy, but the African must not be satisfied with this gloom. He must work himself out of the environment into one studiously created by himself. The environment must be his new civilization. With wisdom he ought to pick out all that is good, not only of the present, but of the past and add to it through the same wisdom those virtues and benefits that he thinks necessary as an addition to all that is good. This is the African's job –- that of remodeling our present civilization. Can he do it? That is the hope. If he fails he will die crumbling like the rest who are being surfeited under the present systems. The African has much in his favour in looking toward the building of a new civilization. He has been inactive for centuries if not millenniums in the political, social, economic structures. He was caught in the worldwind of alien systems and was carried so fast as to have made it impossible for him to recover himself earlier than the present time. His recovery must come through serious thoughtfulness. He has to dissociate himself from every environment of handicap. For quite a while he has been purely an imitator and “yes man” to everything around him. He has been reflecting the white man's idea of things socially, economically, industrially, religiously and philosophically.

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The Daily Garvey for September 10, 2009

September 10, 2009

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Today's message comes from page 121 of “More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”  By Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey, and Essien Udosen E8ssien-Udom. It is an extract from a speech entitled “The Work To Be Done” delivered at Edelweiss Park, Jamaica and reported in the Blackman newspaper of March 30, 1929.

The intelligence that has ruled the world for the last 300 years picked out the African as a weakling to dissipate him, to demoralize him, to the point where he was practically lost, until the vision of our organization came. Formerly the African's vision was not his, the captaincy of his soul was not his, he was not master of his fate, always following the direction of others who meant him no good. But thank God the hour has come for our own men, and we are finding them slowly, to direct our path in the way of a righteous Cause. We are finding our women to, willing to serve. Did not the Anglo-Saxon boast of a Florence Nightingale who tended to sick and dying soldiers in the Crimea War? Later they presented Edith Cavel who did yeoman service in the cause of white democracy in war time. So we to, when the time comes, will have ready women, trained and courageous, to offer their lives if need be for service to race and Africa, God be with you, and inspire you to serve your race and homeland.

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