Having had the wrong education as a start in his racial career, the Negro has become his own greatest enemy. Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes. Booker Washington aptly described the race in one of his lectures by stating that we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt, all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out. Yet, those of us with vision cannot desert the race, leaving it to suffer and die.”
Marcus Garvey
UNIA-ACL First International Convention 1920 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF THE BLACK
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
11- We deprecate the use of the term ‘nigger’ as applied to Negroes, and demand that the word ‘Negro’ be written with a capital ‘N.’
12- We believe that Blacks should adopt every means to protect themselves against barbarous practices inflicted upon us because of our color.
13- We believe in the freedom of Africa for the Black people of the world and by the principle of Europe for the Europeans and Asia for the Asians; we also demand Africa for the Africans at home and abroad.
14-We believe in the inherent right of the African to possess himself of Africa and that his possession of same shall not be regarded as an infringement on any claim or purchase by any race or nation.
15-We strongly condemn the cupidity of those nations of the world who, by open aggression or secret scheme, have seized the territories and inexhaustible natural wealth of Africa, and we place on record our most solemn determination to reclaim the treasures and possessions of the 1st continent of our forefathers.
16- We believe all men should live in peace, one with one another–but when races and nations provoke their ire of other races and nations by attempting to infringe upon their rights, war becomes inevitable, and the attempt in any way to free one’s self or protect one’s rights or heritage becomes justifiable.
17-Whereas the lynching, by burning, hanging, or any other means, of human beings is a barbarous practice and a shame and disgrace to civilization. We, therefore, declare any country guilty of ,…
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