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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

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
Sword
Pens
Tongue
Together
Mightier

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History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
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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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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
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They said that the Negro had no initiative that he was not a business man, but a laborer that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible. Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.
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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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When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
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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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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
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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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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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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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The greatest possesion of man is character
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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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