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.
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.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.
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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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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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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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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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Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.
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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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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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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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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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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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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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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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