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aw NY 190-8999 BD zo “slowed our thinking ability so much that our minds can't keep up with events, and oy the time we realize what 1s happening the EMANCIPATOR is here and gone before we are mentally capable of recognizing him. "We should show forth greater wisdom TODAY. Let us forget the DEAD past and start concentrating all efforts on the LIVING PRESENT. ‘Let the DEAD bury the DEAD.'" February 27, 1958 "She Messenger might pass as an Oriental. But his symoathies and outlook are those of a Black Man. Any crisis that involves the American Negso touches him deeply. Yet he ds ne radical. His politics and religion may be summed up simply as -Black Man.! "He has already welded thouscnds of followers into a closely knit group, able to weather the storms of hate, reprisal, and discrimination. He has led them to economic indep.-ndence, through a communal eystem of sharing. But he regards this achievement as only a microcosin of his eventual dream for Black Man. "tTt is only a questinn of a few more years,' he has reassured his fellowers, ‘when the Black Man will be his own master completely. No one krows when the hour cometh, It is ain the wind. It is coming, One dey, like a storm, it will sueep In like a tidal wave and lift the Blick Man.! -- » . "But the Messenger has arrayed ageinst him formidable enemies, 10 fear the consequences of the smertcan Negro's total freedom, But he is sectre in the knowledge that this thorny path ieads to the eventual redemption of the Black Man in America. "Ve who are ardent followers of the late Mr. Garvey see MESSENGER ELIJAH MUHAMMAD fulfilling everysching by hia ae - 128 - op eT sae . ee Pos: . OOASP TERRE CTT RE TEP TEE TR