Sunday, April 29, 2018
Queen Mother Moore: What's the Hour of the Night?
“What’s
the Hour of the Night?”
After
four score years of freedom
Our
so-called leaders say
That
the Race has made great progress
And
we face the dawn of day
But
the day is not quite dawning
Millions
of my peoples stand
Pleading
at the bars of justice
For
reparations and land
We’re
not free in this country
And
the truth is the light
So
I turn to ask my watchman
“What’s
the hour of the night?”
We
died fighting for democracy
I
admit this to be true
Yet
countless Afrikan men and women
Have
no homes or work to do
If
we wish to see the daylight
Or
the rising of the sun
We
need our self-determination
Our
own affair to run
Since
only reparations will
Put
freedom in our sight
Let
us turn to ask the watchman
“What’s
the hour of the night?”
Civil
rights laws just for us
Is
proof that we’re not free
How
could we be fooled to think
We
had a share in this democracy
When
foreigners come here
They’re
made citizens by choice
Citizenship
was imposed upon us
We
never had a voice
The
passage of the 14th amendment
Took
away the right
So
you’d better ask your watchman
“What’s
the hour of the night?”
Marcus Garvey Quotes
“All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishments of an Afrikan Empire, so strong and powerful as to compel the respect of mankind, but we in our lifetime, can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility in the next generation.”
“This is the day of racial activity, when each and every group of this great human family must exercise its own initiative and influence in its own protection, therefore, African people should be more determined today than they have ever been, because the mighty forces of the world are operating against non-organized groups of peoples, who are not ambitious enough to protect their own interests.”- Marcus Garvey
“NATIONHOOD is the only means by which modern civilization can completely protect itself.Independence of nationality, independence of government, is the means of protecting not only the individual, but the group.Nationhood is the highest ideal of all peoples.”- Marcus Garvey
“The world does not count races and nations that have nothing. Point me to a weak nation and I will show you a people oppressed, abused, taken advantage of by others.Show me a weak race and I will show you a people reduced to serfdom, peonage and slavery.Show me a well organized nation, and I will show you a people and a nation respected by the world.”- Marcus Garvey
Excerpted from The Philosophy And Opinions of Marcus Garvey(1968)(Ed.)Amy Jacques Garvey
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