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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Garvey
Age: 52 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 17
Died: 1940
Died: June 10
Entrepreneur
Journalist
Politician
Printer
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Saint Ann's Bay
Jamaica
Maakos Gyaavi
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.
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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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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.
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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.
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Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.
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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.
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It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.
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Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.
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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.
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To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.
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Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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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.
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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
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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
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The whole world is run on bluff.
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I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.
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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.
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