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.
MARCUS GARVEYThe only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER? Physical, financial, and scientific.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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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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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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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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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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I like honesty and fair play.
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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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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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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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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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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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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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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
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There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
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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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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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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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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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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
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