Marcus Garvey Quotes

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Marcus Garvey

Profession : Publisher

Birth : August 17, 1887

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Marcus Garvey

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Marcus Garvey

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Marcus Garvey

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

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.

Marcus Garvey

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Marcus Garvey

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

Marcus Garvey

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Marcus Garvey

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Marcus Garvey

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Marcus Garvey

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Marcus Garvey

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Marcus Garvey

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Marcus Garvey

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Marcus Garvey

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Marcus Garvey

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

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There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Marcus Garvey

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Marcus Garvey

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

Marcus Garvey