Marcus Garvey
28 quotes
Biography
"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people."
"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."
"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."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
"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."
"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life."
"Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…"
"Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life."
"We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism."
"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 your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind, because man is related to man under all circumstances for good or for ill."
"A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots."
"Marcus ... maintained forcibly that although the Afro-American people were legally "free" as a people, something of the slave mentality was still characteristic of them. Mentally they were still in chains on account of the crippling effect of an inferiority complex. Somehow the sunlight must be allowed to flood the dark corners of their minds, so that they could be truly free and truly men, confident of holding their own with men of other races."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
"Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!"
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men."
"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."
"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."
"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."
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
"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."
"Real men laugh at opposition real men smile when enemies appear."