While we respect all races, Garvey Nation is here to address the unique needs of Black people.

For us, as a Black race, to end the endless cycle of dependence on other races for jobs, businesses, financial aid, public assistance and support, we must learn that we can provide these things for ourselves, like other races do.

By building Garvey Nation on our own, we learn and develop confidence that we can build businesses, buy from them and achieve success, independence and wealth, like other races have achieved by supporting their own businesses. We must take this important step on our own, and not slip back into further dependence on others to assist us or to do it for us, which just reinforces the very dependency that we are working to overcome.

Garvey Nation was created specifically to get millions of Black people working together and buying from Black-owned businesses, so we can take responsibility for our own condition, create millions of jobs and greatly reduce poverty, drugs and crime in our communities. Solving these problems on our own helps us become better citizens, contributors rather than takers from society, and allows us to stand on our own two feet with dignity and respect.

In the words of Marcus Garvey a century ago, "We shall not expect others to do for us that which we should do for ourselves", and "If we get anywhere, we must do it ourselves".

- Garvey Nation