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 only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible. Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others, but when of our own initiative we strike out to build industries, governments, and ultimately empires, then and only then will we as a race prove to our creator and to man in general that we are fit to survive and capable of shaping our own destiny.
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.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.