Marcus Garvey Quotes

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.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

I like honesty and fair play.

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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.

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.

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.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

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

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

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.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

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.

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

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

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

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

The whole world is run on bluff.

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

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.

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

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

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.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

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.

Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.