Quotes by Marcus Garvey

“If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”

“Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.”

“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”

“Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.”

“With confidence, you have won before you have started.”

“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.”

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.”

“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 ou...”

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

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

“We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.”

“Real men laugh at opposition real men smile when enemies appear. ”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”

“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but...”

“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.”

“Real men laugh at opposition real men smile when enemies appear.”

“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West...”