BLACK PEOPLE OOOO!!- MARCUS GARVEY ON CONFIDENCE--FROM COMB THROUGH IT ON FACEBOOK

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Freedom Friday: True freedom from anything (or anyone) starts internally; we must believe in ourselves and our right to have better! #MarcusGarvey http://tinyurl.com/73egvm9

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COMB Through It "If you want liberty," claimed Garvey to a meeting held in 1921, "you yourselves must strike the blow. If you must be free, you must become so through your own effort." But Garvey knew African Americans would not take action if they did not change their perceptions of themselves. He hammered home the idea of racial pride by celebrating the African past and encouraging African Americans to be proud of their heritage and proud of the way they looked. Garvey proclaimed "black is beautiful" long before it became popular in the 1960s. He wanted African Americans to see themselves as members of a mighty race. "We must canonize our own saints'

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