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.
MARCUS GARVEYThe 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?
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
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We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.
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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 only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER? Physical, financial, and scientific.
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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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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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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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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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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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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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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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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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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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