The Honorable Marcus Garvey taught us that “fear is a state of nervousness fit for children, not men, and when a man fears a creature like himself, he offends GOD.” Mr. Garvey was a very powerful fighter of the emotion of fear. His lack of fear is why he was effective in raising the consciousness of millions of Black and Brown people in America and throughout the globe. It took sheer courage to raise the Red, Black, and Green flag as a universal symbol of African nationalism, redemption, and liberation for all people of African descent. Mr. Garvey’s lack of fear enabled him to draft the UNIA-ACL (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League) Petition to the League of Nations (United Nations) in 1922 to represent the interest of four hundred million Black people of Africa, West Indies (Caribbean Islands), South and Central Americas, United States, Asia, and Europe. Mr. Garvey’s lack of fear enabled him to lead the UNIA-ACL to draft and adopt The Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World at the First International Convention of the UNIA-ACL in New York August in 1920. This powerful and historical document that served as our ‘Declaration of Independence’ would be submitted and accepted by over 25,000 Black delegates from all over the world. This Declaration which is still a living and breathing document in 2022, would unfold the wrongs and injustices that our people suffered against, at the hands of white America and state what they deem their fair and just rights, as well as the treatment they proposed to demand of all men and women in the future.
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