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A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Marcus Garvey

Work, Men, Bread

Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

Marcus Garvey

Running, Men, Race

Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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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 Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.

Marcus Garvey

Fighting, West Indies, America

Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.239, The Majority Press

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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

Christian, Godly, Men

Marcus Garvey (1923). “Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey”

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Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Marcus Garvey

Men, Law, Hungry

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

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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, White, Race

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

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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Marcus Garvey

Moving, Humanity, Progress

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

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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, Men, Race

Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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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

Success, Effort, Individual

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

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The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

Marcus Garvey

Power, Men, Financial

Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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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

People, Black, Desire

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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, Years, History

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

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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

Country, Government, People

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Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you have a government you must have the people. Without the people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people.

Marcus Garvey

Government, Expression, People

Marcus Garvey (1923). “Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey”

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Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

Marcus Garvey

Men, Blessing, People

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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Marcus Garvey

Reading, Writing, Men

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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

Godly, Thinking, Creating

Marcus Garvey (2006). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945”, p.366, Univ of California Press

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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

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That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.

Marcus Garvey

Rights, Law, People

Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

Marcus Garvey

Powerful, Practice, Race

Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1984). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: September 1920-August 1921”, p.402, Univ of California Press

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Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Marcus Garvey

Principles, Great Idea, Ideals

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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Marcus Garvey

Men, Words Of Wisdom, African American

Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.11, Ravenio Books

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Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

Marcus Garvey

Race, Accomplish

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History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Marcus Garvey

Land, History, African American

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

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Take the kinks out your mind, not your hair.

Marcus Garvey

Hair, Mind, Kink

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Born: August 17, 1887
Died: June 10, 1940
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