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Thursday, February 17, 2005

, Marcus Garvey

The "Back-to-Africa" leader, was the most widely known of all the agitators for the rights of the Negro and one of the most phenomenal. Arriving in the United States poor and unknown, within four years he became the most talked-of black man in the United States and the West Indies, and perhaps in the world.

(His story is quite remarkable, filled with extraordinary highs and lows, pomp and circumstance, treachery, courage, and epic contradictions, but his message was simple: "Man, Know Thyself." In 2005, it seems his people, generally, still haven't figured this part out.)

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, Man, Know Thyself

Marcus Garvey: "For man to know himself is for him to feel that for him there is no human master. For him Nature is his servant, and whatsoever he wills in Nature, that shall be his reward..."

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