At no time within the last five hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
MARCUS GARVEYWe 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.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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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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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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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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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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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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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.
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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
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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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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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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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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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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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