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.
MARCUS GARVEYWe 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.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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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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Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.
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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.
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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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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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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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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
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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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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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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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Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.
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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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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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