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Millions for Marcus Garvey
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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.
