People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
MARCUS GARVEYPeople without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
MARCUS GARVEYWhat you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
MARCUS GARVEYLook 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.
MARCUS GARVEYAfrica for the Africans, at home and abroad!
MARCUS GARVEYIntelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
MARCUS GARVEYThe pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
MARCUS GARVEYUnite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.
MARCUS GARVEYA man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
MARCUS GARVEYNever 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.
MARCUS GARVEYThere shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
MARCUS GARVEYAlways 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.
MARCUS GARVEYDo not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
MARCUS GARVEYTake 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 GARVEYA reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.
MARCUS GARVEYLook for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
MARCUS GARVEYThe 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.
MARCUS GARVEY