Marcus Garvey Quotes
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What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. 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.
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The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
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If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
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Africa with 400 million Black People can do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you will DIE. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for-nothings, if you cannot do what other men have done, what other nations have done, what other races have done, THEN YOU HAD BETTER DIE.
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Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.
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History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
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The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind
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Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.
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Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.
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We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
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God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.
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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
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Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.
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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.
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Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.
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The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
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