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
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
A people without the knowledge of...
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.