Marcus Garvey's Quotes

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

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.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

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

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

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.

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

The whole world is run on bluff.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

I like honesty and fair play.

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

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.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

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

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

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.