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
Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!
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.
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
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.
Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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.