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 GARVEYI 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.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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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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Africa for the Africans, at home and abroad!
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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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What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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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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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.
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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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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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