Quotes from Marcus Garvey

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

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

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.

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.

The whole world is run on bluff.

I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

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.

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.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

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

I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

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.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

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.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.