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.
MARCUS GARVEYHungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
More Marcus Garvey Quotes
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for 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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What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
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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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Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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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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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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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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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 pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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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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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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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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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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