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 GARVEYAt no time within the last five hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
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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What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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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.
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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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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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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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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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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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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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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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Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.
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