Nature is yet to be fully explored and conquered. The mysteries of creation and the wonders of man's creative instinct are still to be revealed. Hidden truths are still to be unfathomed. Civilization is but a small and meagre achievement to what is still possible of man by his mastery of, and ascendency over, the mysteries that surround us. The ingenuity of man is not completely explored.

When black Africa awakens, brushes his latent intelligence and stretches out his hand to achieve through the impulse of his God, as he is gradually doing, in spite of the opposition of the world, there will come the true realization of the power and genius of man.

Our race once partially uncovered the mysteries of the Universe, then, drunk with power and success, we went to sleep for thusands of years. Like Rip Van Winkle we are rising from our slumber of the ages and shortly we shall bless mankind with the wonder and greatness of life as revealed to us through God from the sleep of countless centuries.

We once handed down a civilzation through the ages that has been claimed, exploited and abused by a morally weaker people, who, like ourselves in the past, are forgetting their God and making a mockery of HIM. Our sins lead us astray and into bondage, but the time is near at hand when our Princes will rise to bless and glorify the true and ever living God. Surely the Negro shall put the world to wonder in the revelation of God through the race.

Taken from The Philosophies & Opinions of Marcus Garvey published in 1923.

GARVEY SPEAKS Vol.3