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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
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Maakos Gyaavi
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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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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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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The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
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Black men, you were once great you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
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The greatest possesion of man is character
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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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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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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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History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory.
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She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.
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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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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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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
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Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
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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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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
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