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.
MARCUS GARVEYPeople without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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We 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.
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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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The greatest possession of a man is character.
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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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Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
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You must not mistake lip service and noise for bravery and service.
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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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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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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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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.
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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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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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