We Are Arbiters of Our Own Destiny
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of
0ur own creative genius we make ourselves what we want to
be. Follow always that great law.
Let the sky and God be our limit, and Eternity our
measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb
by using the active intelligence of our own minds. Mind
creates, and as much as we desire in Nature we can have
through the creation of our own minds. - Marcus Garvey
Printed in the Negro World, 6 June 1925, as a front-page editorial; written in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Original headlines omitted. Creed reprinted in slightly revised form, under the title "African Fundamentalism," as a UNIA poster, sold by mail order through the Negro World by Amy Jacques Garvey, 1925.
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