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
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.
Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.
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.