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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.

Marcus Garvey

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.
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Greatness Ourselves People Respect
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
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Inspirational Man
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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Knowledge Learning People Seek Try World
When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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Deep Failure People
Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.
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Government Greatness People Politics World
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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Give Up Hands Inspirational Life
Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
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Opportunity Yourself
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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Black Death God Myself World Yourself
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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Nation Victory
What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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Act Future Inspirational Time Yourself
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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Development Inspirational Man Slave
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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Care Death Poison
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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Confidence Life Race Yourself
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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Chance Hope People Satisfaction Suffering
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
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Liberty Race Yourself
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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Deep Philosophy Power Strength
She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.
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Happiness Kind Man Misery Woman
History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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Direction History Life True
People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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History Knowledge Past People Tree
Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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Forever God Limitation
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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Carry Ignorance Intelligence Philosophy World
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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Freedom Nation Politics World
There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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Healing Humanity Start Yourself
A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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Food Man
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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Humanity One Liner
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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Believe Confidence God Human Man Understand
You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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Brave Generousity Mistake Yourself

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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