Top 100 Garvey Quotes
#1. If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.
Marcus Garvey
#2. They had almost reached their horses when Neal's unmistakable drawl sounded through the stable: Joren is so pretty. Say, Garvey, are you two friends because you can have him?
Tamora Pierce
#3. THEY NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE
Jay-Z
#4. was the crying voice from the grave that said, 'Garvey, we have suffered for 250 years for your day and for your time; we expect something from you at this hour.'"16
Marcus Garvey
#5. The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
John Henrik Clarke
#6. Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.
Marcus Garvey
#7. When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
John Kruk
#8. With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
Mos Def
#10. I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road.
Guy Garvey
#11. Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.
Steve Garvey
#12. We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Stokely Carmichael
#13. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.
Kwame Nkrumah
#14. When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
Burning Spear
#15. Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.
Kwame Nkrumah
#16. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
John Henrik Clarke
#17. Wynn picked up the note, unfolded it, and read aloud. 'Call Wynnie-the-Pooh. Out of salt. Important. Dig on Coleman, Garvey/CG Towers, Uncle Griffin. Paris. Bank for box.
Christine Warren
#18. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.
Marcus Garvey
#19. Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
W. Timothy Garvey
#20. No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.
Marcus Garvey
#21. Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
Marcus Garvey
#22. Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.
Marcus Garvey
#23. Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
Marcus Garvey
#24. Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
Marcus Garvey
#25. 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.
Marcus Garvey
#26. The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.
Guy Garvey
#27. 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.
Marcus Garvey
#28. He waits.
And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side.
Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting,
Amy Garvey
#29. to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.
Marcus Garvey
#30. 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.
Marcus Garvey
#31. Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.
Marcus Garvey
#32. In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore together, it takes a collective sharing of power, creativity, and perspectives to become agile and nuanced enough to lead into the uncertain future.
Jennifer Garvey Berger
#33. Had ideas, crazy, late-night fantasies strung together like a paper-clip chain.
Amy Garvey
#34. There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
Marcus Garvey
#35. All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and seems to delight in filling only that place created for him by the white man.
Marcus Garvey
#36. If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.
Marcus Garvey
#38. I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.
Marcus Garvey
#39. We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.
Marcus Garvey
#40. I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.
Marcus Garvey
#41. A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey
#42. Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Marcus Garvey
#43. We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
Marcus Garvey
#44. The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.
Marcus Garvey
#45. God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey
#46. To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.
Marcus Garvey
#47. Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
Marcus Garvey
#48. Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
Marcus Garvey
#50. If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.
Marcus Garvey
#51. All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.
Ed Garvey
#52. Love doesn't break easily, I found. But people do.
Amy Garvey
#53. But love like that can be too big, too. It can be something you shouldn't be trusted to hold when you're the kind of person who drops the eggs and breaks the remote control.
Amy Garvey
#54. We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.
Steve Garvey
#55. A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
Marcus Garvey
#56. I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
Steve Garvey
#57. What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
Marcus Garvey
#58. Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.
Marcus Garvey
#61. My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.
Steve Garvey
#62. By the time we were in high school the only difference was that we were talking about how J.D. didn't know that tongue in a girl's ear wasn't a good thing instead of which one of us was going to marry the lead singer of Fall Out Boy one day.
Amy Garvey
#63. Africa for the Africans ... at home and abroad!
Marcus Garvey
#64. Whoever decided that love should hurt sucks.
It's been silent for too long, and I watch as Mom wipes a tear off her cheek. Whoever decided that life should hurt sucks even more.
Amy Garvey
#65. You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.
Marcus Garvey
#66. There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
Marcus Garvey
#67. We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
Marcus Garvey
#68. Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
Marcus Garvey
#69. Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey
#70. You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
Steve Garvey
#71. I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.
Steve Garvey
#72. "Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.
Guy Garvey
#73. Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.
Marcus Garvey
#74. What I wanted was to blow a hole in the sky, explode a star, let the burning embers scorch me and everything they touched.
Amy Garvey
#75. Jack the Hellhound: "Make sure you get a booth in the back so they don't see you in assassin-gear and more importantly, to keep the handsome dog hidden."
Robert Knight: "Where's the handsome dog? All I see is an ugly mutt!"
Jack the Hellhound: "You're so funny I'm busting a gut.
Ben Garvey
#76. Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
Marcus Garvey
#77. The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.
Steve Garvey
#78. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
#80. You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.
Steve Garvey
#81. There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Marcus Garvey
#82. When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
Marcus Garvey
#83. The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
Marcus Garvey
#84. American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.
Marcus Garvey
#86. The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way ... The white man's propaganda has made him the master of the world, and all those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves.
Marcus Garvey
#87. 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.
Marcus Garvey
#88. Do not remove the kinks from your hair
remove them from your brain.
Marcus Garvey
#89. 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
Marcus Garvey
#90. They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION.
Marcus Garvey
#91. Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.
Marcus Garvey
#92. She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.
Marcus Garvey
#93. The clerestory is so high that clouds form there. Angels have been seen up in the vaults.
John Evan Garvey
#94. I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Marcus Garvey
#95. The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
Marcus Garvey
#96. Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.
Steve Garvey
#97. We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.
Guy Garvey
#98. You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Marcus Garvey
#99. As long as people are listening that's all that matters.
Guy Garvey
#100. There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.
Marcus Garvey
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