You can enslave with guns for 300 years the bodies of men, You can shackle the hands of men, and you can shackle the feet of men but you can’t shackle or imprison the minds of men. They do not know what we are capable of, they do not know what we are thinking of, they are thinking in terms of bednoms, battleships, airplanes, submarines, you know what we are thinking of? That is our own private business. Blackmen of Carthage, Black men of Ethiopia, Timbuktu, and Alexandria gave the light of civilization to the world. Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God and Princes shall come out of Egypt. Because classes, Nations, and races have been quite a trifle over four centuries who have been merely born abused, insulted, and humiliated, whose parents can only be compared to the prophet Job, who likewise raised up his proud head and lift up to God’s sky and cry, I am a man and demand a man’s treatment in this world. But I shall teach the Blackman to see beauty in his own kind and stop bleaching his skin and otherwise look like what he is not.
God made man lord of his creation, gave him possession and ownership of the world, and you have been so darn lazy, that you have allowed the other fellow to run away with the world and now he is bluffing you and telling the world belongs to him and that you have no part in it. I don’t have to apologize to anybody for being black. Because God Almighty knows exactly what he was doing when he made me black. If black people know their glorious past, then they would be more inclined to respect themselves. Yes, you heard of Johny Walker Red and Black, well he had his adversities but he is still going strong, Well I intend with your help and God’s grace to continue. Because my work has just begun, and future generations shall have in their hands, the guide by which they shall know the sins of the twentieth century. I know we shall wait patiently for 200 years if need be to face our enemies in our posterity. When my enemies have been satisfied in life or in death even to serve you as I serve you before. In life, I shall be the same, In death I shall be a terror. If death has power then count on me to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be. If I may come in an earthquake, a plague, or a pestilence, or as God would have me, then be assured I will never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you. Will I not go to hell a million times for you? If I die in Atlanta, my work would have just begun. For I shall live in the physical or the spiritual to see the days of Africa’sGlory. when I am dead wrap the mantle of the Red, Black, and Green around me, for in the new life I shall rise to lead the millions of black people to the heights of triumph that you well know. Look for me in a storm or a whirlwind, look for me all around you, for with God’s grace I shall come back with countless millions of black men and women, those that died in America, those that die in the West Indies and those that die in Africa to aide you in the fight for liberty, freedom, and life. The great scholars who have passed through the colleges and universities have thrown away the blasted records, Babylon did it France under Napoleon did it, Germany under Prince Van Bismark did it, America under George Washinton did it, Africa with 400 million black people can do it, If you are not prepared to do it then you will die, you race of cowards, you race of imbacide You race of good for nothings, If you cannot do what other men have done, what other races have done, what other nations have done then you got to die
CAN WE DO IT, YOU CAN DO IT. WE SHALL DO IT
