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The Power of the Mind, Purpose, and Perseverance: A Marcus Garvey Reader
"None but ourselves can free the mind." — Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey spoke to wake people up. His words demanded clear thought, steady purpose, and the courage to endure. The Power of the Mind, Purpose, and A Marcus Garvey Reader gathers his most urgent speeches and essays, introduced by Geoffrey Philp, declaring that Garvey’s blueprint for liberation still speaks with power today.
The book traces three steps of free your mind, set your purpose, and hold fast through struggle. Garvey makes plain that freedom begins in consciousness, that purpose drives action, and that perseverance is the test of every vision.
Each section pushes you to test Garvey’s ideas in your own life. His voice strikes with full force, with guidance only to act.
Poet and educator Geoffrey Philp brings Garvey’s call to a new generation ready to claim their history and shape their future.
Garvey never wrote to soothe. He wrote to free. This book is a mirror and a map. Read it to sharpen your mind, claim your purpose, and build the perseverance to change your world.
It speaks to readers of Black history, Pan-Africanism, and all who seek strength, education, and motivation rooted in the African diaspora.
Marcus Garvey spoke to wake people up. His words demanded clear thought, steady purpose, and the courage to endure. The Power of the Mind, Purpose, and A Marcus Garvey Reader gathers his most urgent speeches and essays, introduced by Geoffrey Philp, declaring that Garvey’s blueprint for liberation still speaks with power today.
The book traces three steps of free your mind, set your purpose, and hold fast through struggle. Garvey makes plain that freedom begins in consciousness, that purpose drives action, and that perseverance is the test of every vision.
Each section pushes you to test Garvey’s ideas in your own life. His voice strikes with full force, with guidance only to act.
Poet and educator Geoffrey Philp brings Garvey’s call to a new generation ready to claim their history and shape their future.
Garvey never wrote to soothe. He wrote to free. This book is a mirror and a map. Read it to sharpen your mind, claim your purpose, and build the perseverance to change your world.
It speaks to readers of Black history, Pan-Africanism, and all who seek strength, education, and motivation rooted in the African diaspora.
98 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 26, 2025
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