Garveyites Quotes

“Those Garveyites I knew could never understand why I liked them but would never follow them, and I pitied them too much to tell them that they could never achieve their goal, that Africa was owned by the imperial powers of Europe, that their lives were alien to the mores of the natives of Africa, that they were people of the West and would for ever be so until they either merged with the West or perished.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.”
― Marcus Garvey

“There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.”
― A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle