Words matter. These are the best Marcus Garvey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
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.
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.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa’s battle-cry is not yet heard.
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
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.
Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad!
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
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.
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
I like honesty and fair play.
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
The whole world is run on bluff.
