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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

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Marcus Garvey emphasized that the success in education, industry, and politics for people of African descent is reliant on the creation and safeguarding of a nation built by themselves, which can only be located in Africa.
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Publisher, Jamaican
Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican publisher, political leader, and entrepreneur.
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