The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
MARCUS GARVEYAt no time within the last five hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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At no time within the last five hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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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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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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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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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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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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The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER? Physical, financial, and scientific.
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History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
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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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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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