Quotes from Marcus Garvey

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

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

The greatest possesion of man is character

The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

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

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

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.

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.

No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.