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GARVEY SPEAKS Issue #31 June 20th 2004.
THE CALL TO AFRICA 
There are many persons who continue in ignorance of the real meaning of the Back to Africa Movement. There are many others who wickedly misinterpret and misrepresent the meaning with the idea of frustrating the movement. This is also a betrayal of black ignorance.
But what is the truth of the whole matter? The Back to Africa Movement is rather a simple, natural, logical and spiritual "Call to Africa". A spontaneous prompting, an irrepressible urge has found its birth in the minds of the Sons [and Daughters] of Africa in all places of the earth in which they dwell. Silent, unheralded, swift and mysterious, out of the depths of their misery and suffering, out of their woes and despair has arisen an indescribable cry, a wail of lamentation - indefinable, yet heard, understood, interpreted, defined and reproduced in the clarion call of Garvey! The Call to Africa is still more than the indefinable cry of an oppressed people, more than the interpretation and the inspired utterances of a bold and inspired leader, whom the Negro acclaims, who spreads discomfiture among the ranks of Negro oppressors; the Call to Africa is the voice of the Omnipotent. Let my people go, that they might serve me. The Call to Africa is the Omnipotent in the act of delivering His people from bondage. We contend that the Call to Africa, viz., that her sons should arise and seek her redemption, is natural and inevitable to Africa- bereft of her children carried into captivity and enslaved in alien lands, herself overrun by alien peoples, partitioned among them, and her sons enslaved, reduced and degraded in their own soil. Three long centuries of Negro sufferring under the iniquities of the slave-trade. Three hundred years of unparalleled horrors... and still intolerable conditions prevailing to this very moment could not but move the heaven of justice to vindicate her cause. Slowly and surely the arm of omnipotence has been outstretched to bring justice to the Negro. He is now passing through the Red Sea wall. His day of victory is at hand. Editorial from The Blackman (newspaper) May 15, 1929. GARVEY SPEAKS Vol.3  
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