Marcus Garvey Quotes
"A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Man, Reading, Woman, Writing)
"Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!"
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Home)
"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: People, Hope, Chance, Suffering)
"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
(Related: Nature, Genius, God, Eternity, First, Law, Sky, Want)
"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
(Related: People, Desire, Will)
"I like honesty and fair play."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Honesty, Play)
"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Competition, Lying, Man, May, Will)
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Life, Confidence, Race, Self)
"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Men, Will)
"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm."
- Marcus Garvey
"Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Will)
"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Men, Consequences)
"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
(Related: Success, Nation, Protection)
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: World)
"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
(Related: Life, Success, Effort, Force, Nation)
"Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Man)
"There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Liberty, Race, Solution)
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: History, People, Knowledge, Culture, Past)
"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Progress, Humanity)
"The whole world is run on bluff."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: World)
"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Greatness, Shame, Skin, Symbol)
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Confidence)
"Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Race, Will)