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Portrait of Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey

(1887–1940) Journalist Colony of Jamaica

139 quotes in 656 categories

A rallying cry of ‘Africa for the Africans’ shows Marcus Garvey’s call for unity across the continent. He stresses the importance of getting organized to resist exploitation and to protect each community. He also links belief in God to the ability to understand and improve social institutions.

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Marcus Garvey was a journalist from Colony of Jamaica, best known for Philosophy andopinions of Marcus Garvey.

Quick Facts About Marcus Garvey

Born: August 17, 1887
Died: June 10, 1940
Nationality: Colony of Jamaica
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Philosophy andopinions of Marcus Garvey
Spouse: Amy Jacques Garvey

About Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist who founded and led the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League as its first President‑General, declared himself Provisional President of Africa, and promoted black nationalist and Pan‑Africanist ideas later called Garveyism.

Awards & Honors

Order of National Hero National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame

Quotes by Marcus Garvey

The greatest possesion of man is character

Character

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I like honesty and fair play.

Fair

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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Attraction

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The whole world is run on bluff.

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A people without the knowledge of...

African american

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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Courage

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With confidence, you have won before you have started.

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Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

Brain

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

Enemies

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The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

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

Books

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The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man…

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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

Africa

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

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You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

Bravery

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American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are…

Communication

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I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength,…

Civilization

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They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor…

Exploitation

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In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes…

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Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let…

Africa

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Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest…

Consumers

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Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and…

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Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be…

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All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole…

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Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert…

Age

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Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them…

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It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization…

Advantage

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The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way…The white man's propaganda has made him…

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God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God…

Cities

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If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and…

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The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race…

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This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons…

Being real

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“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless,…

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Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more…

Ambition

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Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

Ability

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

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If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

Education

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Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Great idea

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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Consequences

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Marcus Garvey by topic

Men (35) Race (31) World (27) Racism (21) People (21) Nations (12) Life (10) Inspirational (10)