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Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

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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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
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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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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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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
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The whole world is run on bluff.
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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, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!
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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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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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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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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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Black men, you were once great you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
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