The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
MARCUS GARVEYLiberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.
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If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.
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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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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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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?
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Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
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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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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
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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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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.
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