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.
MARCUS GARVEYWhat you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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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 pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
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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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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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What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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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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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 Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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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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