Marcus Garvey Quotes

Jamaican - Publisher August 17, 1887 - June 10, 1940

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Knowledge, Tree, Culture, History, Past

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. - Marcus Garvey

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Life, Confidence, Courage, Self, You

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. - Marcus Garvey

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Black, Greatness, Skin, Shame, Symbol

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! - Marcus Garvey

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Freedom, Slavery, Free, Minds, Our, None

With confidence, you have won before you have started. - Marcus Garvey

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Confidence, You, Before, Started, Won

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear. - Marcus Garvey

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Smile, Men, Laugh, Enemies, Real, Appear

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. - Marcus Garvey

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Progress, Humanity, Attraction, Moves

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.

Nature, God, Sky, Great, Law, Genius

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. - Marcus Garvey

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Me, Storm, Look, Whirlwind

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, Nation, Africa, Protection, Our

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The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Race, Without, Enemies, Within, Much

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.

Together, Friends, White, Better, Race

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. - Marcus Garvey

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Men, You, Will, Minds, Bodies, Liberate

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.

Life, God, Peace, Man, World, Hands

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.

Welcome, World, Battle, Africa, See

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, Black, People, Back, Africa, Will

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.

Life, Success, Effort, Nation, Why, Like

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Woman, Man, Reading, Writing, Ready

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. - Marcus Garvey

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Men, Consequences, Afraid, Who, Earnest

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

Time, Fight, People, Battle, Race, Our

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

World, Know, Free, Africa, Whole, Where

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. - Marcus Garvey

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Hope, People, Suffering, Chance, Never

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will. - Marcus Garvey

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

You, Race, Will, Accomplish, Up, Mighty

The whole world is run on bluff.

World, Run, Whole, Bluff

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! - Marcus Garvey

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Home, Africa, Abroad

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

You, Problem, Solution, Race, Liberty

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