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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

Marcus Garvey

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Marcus Garvey
Age: 52 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 17
Died: 1940
Died: June 10
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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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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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The whole world is run on bluff.
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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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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
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The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.
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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.
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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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We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.
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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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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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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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Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!
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There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
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