Marcus Garvey Quotes

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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 for centuries, so…
• We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
• The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the…
• Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means…
• Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people…
• They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other…
• Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that…
• God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we…
• God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build…
• It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move…
• No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.
• RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be…
• LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets…
• The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
• The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.
• 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…
• 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…
• A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he…
• To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does…
• If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of…

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