Marcus Garvey – The Man Who Dreamed Before the World Was Ready

Marcus Garvey - The Man Who Dreamed Before the World Was Ready (pp. 40 to 43) History often remembers those whose dreams succeeded.Too rarely does it remember those whose dreams came too early. There is a particular cruelty in arriving before your time. The world is not yet built to receive what you carry. The institutions that would house your ideas do not yet exist. The language that would name your vision has not yet been invented. And so the world calls you impossible — and then, a generation later, calls the very things you proposed obvious, and forgets that it was...