To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
MARCUS GARVEYLet us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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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.
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What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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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.
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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.
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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
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Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
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I like honesty and fair play.
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Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carry the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.
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At no time within the last five hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
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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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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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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate anyone. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.
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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God’s grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America.
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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