The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
MARCUS GARVEYPeople without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.
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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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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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There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
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If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.
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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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Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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