Marcus Garvey Quotes

Marcus Garvey Quotes.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.
Marcus Garvey
If you get up everyday and you don’t learn you are
a fool
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
The whole world is run on bluff.
Marcus Garvey
A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.
Marcus Garvey
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
Marcus Garvey
I like honesty and fair play.
Marcus Garvey
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
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
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
Marcus Garvey
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 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
Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.
Marcus Garvey
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
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
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Marcus Garvey