A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey More Quotes by Marcus Garvey More Quotes From Marcus Garvey 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. Marcus Garvey destiny race men 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 Marcus Garvey west-indies fighting america She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her. Marcus Garvey women kind real At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters. Marcus Garvey race history years The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders. Marcus Garvey leader race men Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. Marcus Garvey progress humanity moving The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization. Marcus Garvey disorganization used weapons Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey measurement limits sky RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself. No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers. Marcus Garvey godly christian men 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. Marcus Garvey individual effort success History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led. Marcus Garvey determination race history 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. Marcus Garvey god law sky I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race. Marcus Garvey hate race white If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey confidence trust life 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. Marcus Garvey black desire people Great principles, great ideals know no nationality. Marcus Garvey great-idea ideals principles A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it. Marcus Garvey bread work men Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. Marcus Garvey hungry law men God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is. Marcus Garvey creating godly thinking Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own. Marcus Garvey government country people
