Quotes About Marcus Garvey

#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 NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE

Jay-Z

#3. 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

#4. Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

Marcus Garvey

#5. 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

#6. We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Stokely Carmichael

#7. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.

Kwame Nkrumah

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Marcus Garvey

#14. 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

#15. Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

Marcus Garvey

#16. Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

Marcus Garvey

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

Marcus Garvey

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

Marcus Garvey

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I like honesty and fair play.

Marcus Garvey

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Marcus Garvey

#30. Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Marcus Garvey

#31. We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

Marcus Garvey

#32. The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Marcus Garvey

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Marcus Garvey

#36. Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Marcus Garvey

#37. The whole world is run on bluff.

Marcus Garvey

#38. If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

Marcus Garvey

#39. A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Marcus Garvey

#40. What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

Marcus Garvey

#41. Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

Marcus Garvey

#42. Take the kinks out your mind, not your hair.

Marcus Garvey

#43. Africa for the Africans ... at home and abroad!

Marcus Garvey

#44. You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

Marcus Garvey

#45. There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

Marcus Garvey

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Marcus Garvey

#49. 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

#50. Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

Marcus Garvey

#51. 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

#52. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

#53. A people without the knowledge of ...

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#54. There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Marcus Garvey

#55. When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.

Marcus Garvey

#56. The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

Marcus Garvey

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Do not remove the kinks from your hair
remove them from your brain.

Marcus Garvey

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Marcus Garvey

#66. The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Marcus Garvey

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.

Marcus Garvey

#70. I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.

Marcus Garvey

#71. 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.

Marcus Garvey

#72. Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.

Marcus Garvey

#73. Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

Marcus Garvey

#74. The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

Marcus Garvey

#75. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

#76. The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Marcus Garvey

#77. We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

Marcus Garvey

#78. Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Marcus Garvey

#79. In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

Marcus Garvey

#80. I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Marcus Garvey

#81. It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities,

Marcus Garvey

#82. The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

Marcus Garvey

#83. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Marcus Garvey

#84. Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Marcus Garvey

#85. The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

#86. The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance ... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Marcus Garvey

#87. This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Marcus Garvey

#88. Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden ...

Marcus Garvey

#89. History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Marcus Garvey

#90. I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Marcus Garvey

#91. Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

Marcus Garvey

#92. Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

Marcus Garvey

#93. Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

Marcus Garvey

#94. Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

Marcus Garvey

#95. The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.

Marcus Garvey

#96. It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

Marcus Garvey

#97. we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out.

Marcus Garvey

#98. At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

Marcus Garvey

#99. The greatest possesion of man is character

Marcus Garvey

#100. I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

Marcus Garvey