Marcus Garvey Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Mind, Use

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.791, Univ of California Press

• They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION.

  Marcus Garvey

  Slavery, Firsts, Subjugation

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.13, Ravenio Books

• Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.

  Marcus Garvey

  Race, Long, People

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.15, Ravenio Books

• I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

  Marcus Garvey

  Dream, Race, Leader

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