No fear, no intimidation, nothing can daunt the courage of the Negro who affiliates himself with the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Men, we want you to understand that this is the age of men, not of pigmies, not of serfs and peons and dogs, but men and we who make up the membership of the Universal Negro Improvement Association reflect the new manhood of the Negro. We are not going back we are going forward… forward to the emancipation of 400,000,000 oppressed souls forward to the redemption of a great country and the re-establishment of a greater government.Garvey has just started to fight Garvey has not given his first exhibition of his fighting prowess yet. If you want to see the new Negro fight, force him to the wall, and the nearer he approaches the wall the more he fights, and when he gets to the wall he is even more desperate.What does the world think… that we are going back to sixty years ago in America… going back to eighty-five years ago in the West Indies… going back to 300 years ago in Africa? The world is crazy if they indulge that thought.
They thought that the new Negro would bend they thought that the new Negro was only bluffing and would exhibit the characteristic of the old Negro when pushed to the corner or pushed to the wall. The world is sadly mistaken and rudely shocked at the same time. No longer can the Negro be laid low in laying the Negro low you but bring down the pillars of creation, because 400,000,000 Negroes are determined to a man, to take a place in the world and to hold that place. We have only started we are just on our way we have just made the first lap in the great race for existence, and for a place in the political and economic sun of men.Those of you who have been observing events for the last four of five weeks with keen eyes and keen perceptions will come to no other conclusion that this - that through the effort to strangle the Universal Negro Improvement Association - through the effort to silence Marcus Garvey - there is a mad desire, there is a great plan to permanently lay the Negro low in this civilization and in future civilizations. The world is ignorant of the scope of this great movement, when it thinks that by laying low any one individual it can permanently silence this great spiritual wave, that has taken hold of the souls and the hearts and minds of 400,000,000 Negroes throughout the world. The world is ignorant of the purpose of this association. The spirit of the Universal Negro Improvement Association has, fortunately for us, made a circuit of the world, to the extent that harm of injury done to any one, will in no way affect the great membership of this association or retard its great program. The District Attorney, with whom I have been contesting the case for my liberty and for the existence of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, in his fervid appeal, in his passionate appeal, to the gentlemen of the jury last Friday cried out: Gentlemen, will you let the tiger loose?The tiger is already loose, and he has been at large for so long that it is no longer one tiger, but there are many tigers. Among the many names by which I have been called, I was dubbed by another name a couple days ago.
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