All Marcus Garvey Quotes
- Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far… Burden
- Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the… Ambition
- A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it. Bread
- Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have… Been
- Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others,… Alongside
- Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create… Astonish
- I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and… Civilization
- I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there… Confidence
- To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man. Complete
- Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own. Absolute
- Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every… Africa
- Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain. Brain
- We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is… Able
- I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand,… Carelessly
- Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. Authority
- The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized… African American
- If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it. All
- A people without the knowledge of... African American
- At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters. African American
- History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life. African American
- History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has… Achieved
- The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny,… African American
- Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle… Bestow
- There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do. African American
- What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time. Act