Top Quotes of Marcus Garvey
- “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
- “A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.” – Marcus Garvey
- “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.” – Marcus Garvey
- “I like honesty and fair play.” – Marcus Garvey
- “If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.” – Marcus Garvey
- “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” – Marcus Garvey
- “Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden…” – Marcus Garvey
- “The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.” – Marcus Garvey
- “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” – Marcus Garvey
- “With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
Top Quotes of Marcus Garvey
Ambition Quotes by Marcus Garvey
Culture Quotes by Marcus Garvey
Quotes about Effort by Marcus Garvey
Quotes about Progress by Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey’s History Quotes
Famous Quotes of Marcus Garvey
Ambition Quotes by Marcus Garvey
To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.
Marcus Garvey
Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one’s condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state.
Marcus Garvey
Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.
Marcus Garvey
Culture Quotes by Marcus Garvey
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Marcus Garvey
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.
Marcus Garvey
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?
Marcus Garvey
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
Marcus Garvey
Quotes about Effort by Marcus Garvey
Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
Marcus Garvey
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
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 Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.
Marcus Garvey
Quotes about Progress by Marcus Garvey
American suffragist, speech “Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?” at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.
Marcus Garvey
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 upon the world a civilization of your own.
Marcus Garvey
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey’s History Quotes
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
Marcus Garvey
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
Marcus Garvey
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 been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.
Marcus Garvey
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, that race’s destiny.
Marcus Garvey
Famous Quotes of Marcus Garvey
Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.
Marcus Garvey
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
Marcus Garvey
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 as possible to be intelligent.
Marcus Garvey
To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
Marcus Garvey