The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
MARCUS GARVEYThe Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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Never 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.
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
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Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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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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I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate anyone. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.
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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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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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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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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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The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER? Physical, financial, and scientific.
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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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