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5 New Year’s Resolutions Marcus Garvey Would Want Every Black Person to Make

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5. Associate With People as Smart or Smarter Than You

Garvey also identified a way to build on and maintain the learning process. He instructed us to “never keep the constant company of anybody who doesn’t know as much as you or is as educated as you, and from whom you cannot learn something from or reciprocate your learning, especially, if that person is illiterate or ignorant because constant association with such a person will unconsciously cause you to drift into the peculiar culture or ignorance of that person.  Contact with cultured persons and with books is the best companionship you can have and keep.”

Of course, the above lessons are only a small subset of his teachings, meant to be helpful New Year’s resolution suggestions. But Garvey had many more lessons in his blueprint.  For a more detailed look, read “Marcus Garvey, Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy.”

 

 

 

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