Quotes from Marcus Garvey


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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.


Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.


Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.


Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.


There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.


If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.


The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.


The whole world is run on bluff.


I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.


Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.


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.


This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.


Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.


We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.


Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.


Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!


I like honesty and fair play.


Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.


A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.


If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.