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Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Garvey
Age: 52 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 17
Died: 1940
Died: June 10
Entrepreneur
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Saint Ann's Bay
Jamaica
Maakos Gyaavi
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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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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No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.
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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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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.
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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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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
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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.
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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.
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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I read Up From Slavery and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.
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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.
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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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Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
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