Marcus Garvey Quotes

• There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

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• We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

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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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• If you haven’t confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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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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• 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.

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• The whole world is run on bluff.

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• Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

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• 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.

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• Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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

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• Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

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

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

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• I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

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• I like honesty and fair play.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

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Marcus Garvey (27)

Birth:	17th August, 1887
Death:	10th June, 1940
Nationality:	Jamaican
Profession:	Journalist, Publisher

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.

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