Marcus Garvey

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This paper presents an overview of the philosophy and opinions underlying Marcus Garvey's belief that, for Africans to reach their potential in the eyes of God and the world, they must first abandon the Americas and return to their homeland in Africa.

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"Although left formally uninvestigated, his core beliefs appear to lie with, first, the Christian faith, and second, democratic notions of equality and liberty. He fails to broach the topic of faith, but he does address religion in general in an interesting way. He writes, "Religion is one's opinion can belief in some ethical truth. . . . No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers." (Garvey, 3). This is an important definition because although Garvey later endorses separation between the races of the world, at no point does he investigate the social frictions that occur between and within religions. Undeniably, this is not because of an inability to recognize the contrasts between faiths, but apparently, he sees racial friction as far more irrevocable."

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