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24 quotes by Marcus Garvey

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

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With confidence, you have won before you have started.

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

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

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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.... →

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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... →

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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere... →

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Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

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

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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