Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
MARCUS GARVEYEvery 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.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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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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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
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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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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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Africa for the Africans, at home and abroad!
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Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
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The greatest possession of a man is character.
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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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The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER? Physical, financial, and scientific.
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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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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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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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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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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 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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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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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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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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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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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.
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