Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth17 August 1887
CitySaint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
CountryJamaica
Marcus Garvey quotes about
Up, up, you mighty race!/ You can accomplish/ what you will.
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.
The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream -- if I may so call it -- of being a race leader dawned.
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
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!
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 traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.
I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.