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“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.”

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, vol. I (1923), p. 1

Context The opening aphorism of the collection his wife compiled in 1923 to set out his programme of Black self-reliance.

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Marcus GarveyUnited States · 1887–1940
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