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.
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.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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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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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 we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.
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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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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
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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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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
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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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