“The Negro will have to build his own government, industry, art, science, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.”

Marcus Garvey

I will add even himself

If you are building a house and the nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail?

Rwandan Proverb

We desire to bequeath two things to our children: the first is roost, the second – wings

Sudanese Proverb

The child of a rat is a rat

Malagasy Proverb

“We must understand that the government is the people and that the majority of the people dictate the policy of the government. If the majority of the people are against a measure, a thing or race, then the government is impotent to protect that measure, that thing or that race.

“For the Negro to depend entirely upon the ballot and…

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