The Universal Negro Improvement Association

"Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom...this is the day of racial activity, when each and every group of this great human family must exercise its own initiative and influence in its own protection...Wake Up Ethiopia! Wake Up Africa! Let us work towards this one glorious end of a free, redeemed, and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellations of nations...a race without authority and power, is a race without respect...One God! One Aim! One Destiny!"