They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible.
Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II (ed. Univ of California Press, 1983) - ISBN: 9780520050914