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Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

The whole world is run on bluff.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.