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
The whole world is run on bluff.
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not
The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.
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.
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.
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.