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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

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Marcus Garvey
Age: 52 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 17
Died: 1940
Died: June 10
Entrepreneur
Journalist
Politician
Printer
Publisher
Sociologist
Saint Ann's Bay
Jamaica
Maakos Gyaavi
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Jamaicans

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