Observations about Garvey:

Roi Ottley:

"The movement set in motion what was to become the most compelling force in Negro life - race and color consciousness. It has propelled many a political and social movement and stimulated racial internationalism. . . . . It accounts for much constructive belligerency today."
From New World A-Comin, 1943

Jamaica Gleaner:

All leaders have reaped where Garvey sowed. . . . Indeed it would be true to say of Jamaica and to a lesser extent the other British West Indies that national consciousness received its main impetus, if it was not actually born, from the racial movement associated with the still revered Marcus Garvey.
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Chicago Defender:
Is Mau-Mau the Hand of Marcus Garvey? And wherever in Africa the natives seek to throw off domination, the name of Marcus Garvey is revered.
1953