Marcus Garvey Quotes: Inspiring Words of Wisdom
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.
Liberate the minds of men and you will liberate the bodies of men.
Don’t remove the kinks from your hair, remove them from your brain.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
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 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.
Without confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
If you want to be a great race, you have to think of yourself as a great race.
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.
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. When the storm comes, I will be there to comfort you.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental captivity because whilst others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
If you haven’t confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Success is not built on words but by leverage obtained with strength of sufficient numbers.
The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
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.
You have no confidence in self; you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Take the kinks out of your mind instead of your hair.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves.
When all else fails to organize the race for anything tangible, a resort to prayer will be beneficial.
Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.
Be as proud of your race today as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
Africa for Africans, at home and abroad!
I read but seldom, for I have a comprehensive library of my own, more valuable and detailed than any other I know.
The difference between a benefit and an injury to a people depends on the principle on which the action is taken.
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Liberate the minds of men and you will liberate the bodies of men.
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. When the storm comes, I will be there to comfort you.
Show me the race or the nation without a flag, and I will show you a race of people without any pride. Aye! In song and mimicry they have said, Every race has a flag but the coon. How true! Ay! But that was said of us four years ago. They can’t say it now…
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
You can change the world if you are brave enough to try.
The greatest weapon used against the Negro is disorganization.
You can accomplish what you will and what you imagine.
If you haven’t confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves.
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. When the storm comes, I will be there to comfort you.
Show me the race or the nation without a flag, and I will show you a race of people without any pride. Aye! In song and mimicry they have said, Every race has a flag but the coon. How true! Ay! But that was said of us four years ago. They can’t say it now…
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
You can change the world if you are brave enough to try.
The greatest weapon used against the Negro is disorganization.
You can accomplish what you will and what you imagine.