Marcus Garvey is one of the most influential leaders that the global community ever had. His talks were as inspirational as his personality and that’s why we have collected a number of his quotes. So go ahead and read the Marcus Garvey Quotes.
Marcus Garvey Quotes
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
I like honesty and fair play. Marcus Garvey
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. Marcus Garvey
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Marcus Garvey
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
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. Marcus Garvey
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. Marcus Garvey
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Marcus Garvey
The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race. Marcus Garvey
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. Marcus Garvey
The whole world is run on the bluff. Marcus Garvey
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear. Marcus Garvey
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. Marcus Garvey
Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race. Marcus Garvey
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice. Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness. Marcus Garvey
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
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial, and political prize in the world. Marcus Garvey
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory. Marcus Garvey
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. Marcus Garvey
We welcome the opposition of the world because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa’s battle-cry is not yet heard. 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
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
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
To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive. Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey Quotes On Confidence
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. Marcus Garvey
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do. Marcus Garvey
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won before you have started. 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
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
Marcus Garvey Quotes On Racism
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
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty. Marcus Garvey
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. Marcus Garvey
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad! Marcus Garvey
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey Quotes On Education
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
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 are exact. Marcus Garvey
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. Marcus Garvey
To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man. Marcus Garvey