Quotes by Marcus Garvey

• A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
• Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
• Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
• God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
• I like honesty and fair play.
• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
• Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
• Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
• Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
• Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
• Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
• I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
• There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
• Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
• There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
• Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
• The whole world is run on bluff.
• The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
• With confidence, you have won before you have started.
• Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
• Great men are not mere dreamers; they innovate and inspire change.