“PREPAREDNESS is the watchword of this age. For us as a race to maintain, as we have been in the past divided among ourselves, parochializing, nationalizing our activities as subjects and citizens of many alien races and governments under which we live- is but to hold our-
selves in readiness for that great catastrophe that is bound to come-that of racial extermination at the hands of the stronger race – the race that will be fit to survive.” Marcus Garvey
UNIA-ACL UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVE- MENT ASSOCIATION AND AFRICAN COMMUNITIES LEAGUE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF THE BLACK PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
41- We believe that any limited liberty which deprives one of the complete rights and prerogatives of full citizenship is but a modified form of slavery
42- We declare it an injustice to our people and a serious impediment to the health of a race to deny competent licensed Black physicians the right to practice in the public hospitals of the communities in which they preside for no other reason than their race and color
43- We call upon the various governments of the world to accept and acknowledge Black representatives who shall be sent to the said governments to represent the general welfare of the black peoples of the world
44- We deplore and protest against the practice of con fining juvenile prisoners in prisons with Adults, and we recommend that such youthful prisoners be taught gainful trades under humane supervision
45- Be it further resolved that we as a race of people declare the League of Nations null and void as far as blacks are concerned, in that it seeks to deprive blacks of our liberty
46- We demand of all men to do unto us as we would do unto them, in the name of justice, and we cheerfully ,…
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