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 GARVEYIf we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
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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 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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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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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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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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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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Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carry the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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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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