18 Quotes & Sayings By Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist, writer and entrepreneur. He is also known as the Father of Black Internationalism, and the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Widely regarded as one of the most influential and charismatic African American leaders of the 20th century, Garvey developed a message and style of oratory that made his ideas easily understood by Blacks and Whites alike.   He formed political organizations, including the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the African Communities League (ACL), and the Negro Factories Corporation (NEC) Read more

He traveled across Africa, Asia, and the Americas promoting black economic empowerment. His philosophy was based on black pride, racial unity, and self-help. He also founded the newspaper The Negro World in 1920, which became one of the most influential Black newspapers in America.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated...
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If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey
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The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity. Marcus Garvey
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With confidence, you have won before you have started. Marcus Garvey
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. Marcus Garvey
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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. Marcus Garvey
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We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign. Marcus Garvey
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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, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but that which we eat, the water we drink, and the air we inhale, which at fermentation conspire at eventide to make us so drunk and tired that we lose control of ourselves and fall asleep. Everybody is a drunkard, and if we were to enforce real prohibition we should all be dead. Marcus Garvey
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Marcus Garvey
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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
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. Marcus Garvey
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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. Marcus Garvey
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Real men laugh at opposition real men smile when enemies appear. Marcus Garvey
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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
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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
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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! Marcus Garvey
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Marcus Garvey