What was Marcus Garvey like as a speaker?
Marcus Garvey was a very compassionate speaker. He was a person that, when he spoke, that you could feel what he was saying and you know that he meant what he said. Now he was dynamic, but not dynamic in the way that most people look at it today. His, ah, words were compassionate and his words were, ah, from his soul. He spoke from his soul, and, ah, you had this, ah, feeling that you were there, that you are he, too, that you felt the same thing that he was speaking of, you felt that you just want to go on and do what he was talking about… And, ah, Garvey spoke the words that you thought you was speaking yourself. In other words, if you had been in the position that Garvey was in, you would have been speaking the same thing. They were in your thoughts, in your mind, in your brains, but still you did not speak them the way Garvey spoke them. And it… ah, it was in one accord. It was just like, ah, everybody had one mind. What were black people’s lives like in the South that made Gar
