Marcus Garvey Quotes

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

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

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.

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.

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

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

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.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

I like honesty and fair play.

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.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.

The whole world is run on bluff.

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

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

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.