Emancipated From Mental Slavery Kindle Edition

Right now melanin, the aromatic biopolymer and organic semiconductor that makes Black people black is worth over $350 a gram more than gold. In only a few short years, on August 13, 2020 the Red, Black and Green flag will be celebrated as the colors of all African people. We also know the song lyric “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds,” recurrently associated with Bob Marley, in truth originated with Marcus Garvey.

“We’re going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.”

Those are the words which Marcus Garvey spoke in either October or November 1937. The place? Menelik Hall in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This selection of sayings of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, provides an introduction to the mind of a man capable of speaking words into existence which continue to have a profound have an effect on on those who hear them to this very day.

Marcus Garvey used to be a journalist, editor, publisher, in addition to founder, and President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA.) This book serves as an introduction to the philosophy which made his ideas known all over the world. Notable among them is the phrase which has come to many sung as a paraphrased lyric by Bob Marley. Its organic power and compelling urge for a new mental state a few of the human race can not seriously be denied.

This book is a distillation of Garvey thought. The product of years studying the words works and deeds of a man who left a legacy that may be still so potent efforts continue to dissuade seekers of truth from his vision.