| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24472 |
| QUOTATION: | No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), Jamaican black nationalist leader. Speech, June 6, 1928, Royal Albert Hall, London. Quoted in Adolph Edwards, Marcus Garvey (1967). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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