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• The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.

  Marcus Garvey

  African American, World, Things To Do

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Black, Loses

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• The greatest possesion of man is character

  Marcus Garvey

  Character, Men

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• Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has forgotten them and that they can't rise because of their color.. we can only build... with faith in ourselves and with self-reliance, believing in our own possibilities, that we can rise to the highest in God's creation.

  Marcus Garvey

  Believe, Godly, Self

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• It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.

  Marcus Garvey

  Responsibility, Practice, Assumption

  Marcus Garvey, Tony Martin (1986). “Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy”, p.98, The Majority Press

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• Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

  Marcus Garvey

  Loses

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

  Marcus Garvey

  Use, World, Want

  Marcus Garvey, Tony Martin (1986). “Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy”, p.6, The Majority Press

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• This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Years, Civilization, Ideas

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.54, The Majority Press

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• 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.

  Marcus Garvey

  Integrity, Selfish, Common

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Mind, Body

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.204, Univ of California Press

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• Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.

  Marcus Garvey

  Opportunity, Records, Advantage

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• What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

  Marcus Garvey

  African American, Inspire, Words Of Wisdom

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.

  Marcus Garvey

  Strong, War, Men

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

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• The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.

  Marcus Garvey

  Weapons, Used, Disorganization

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• 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

  Marcus Garvey (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920”, p.616, Univ of California Press

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• Africa with 400 million Black People can
  do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you
  will DIE. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good
  for-nothings, if you cannot do what other men have done, what other
  nations have done, what other races have done, THEN YOU HAD BETTER DIE.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Race, People

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• To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Enemy, Knows

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.17, Ravenio Books

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• When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Failing, Organize

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• Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

  Marcus Garvey

  Brother, Stars, Ambition

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

  Marcus Garvey

  Civilization, Poison, Drink

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.13, The Majority Press

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• 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

  Real, Women, Kind

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

  Marcus Garvey

  Together, Tongue, Pens

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• 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

  Life, Trust, Confidence

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

  Marcus Garvey

  Sky, Limits, Measurement

  Marcus Garvey (2006). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945”, p.320, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Marcus Garvey (2006). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945”, p.320, Univ of California Press

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