Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.
MARCUS GARVEYA man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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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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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.
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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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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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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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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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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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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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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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I like honesty and fair play.
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Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
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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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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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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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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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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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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
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History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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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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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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