Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
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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The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER? Physical, financial, and scientific.
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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 Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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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.
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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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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
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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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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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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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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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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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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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