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Marcus Garvey [1887-1940] Jamaican

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Publisher, Jamaican Political leader

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.	History, Knowledge	101
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.	Courage, Life	102
With confidence, you have won before you have started.		103
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.		104
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.		105
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.	God, Great, Nature	106
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.		107
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.	Good	108
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.		109
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.		110
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.		111
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.		112
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.		113
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.	Men	114
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!	Freedom	115
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.	Success	116
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.		117
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.	Success	118
Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.		119
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.		120
The whole world is run on bluff.		121
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.	Chance, Hope	122
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.		123
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.		124
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.		125
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.		126
The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.		201
We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.	Peace	202
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.		203
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.	Smile	204
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.		205
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.		206
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!		207
I like honesty and fair play.		208
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.		209

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