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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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Politician
Printer
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Saint Ann's Bay
Jamaica
Maakos Gyaavi
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
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A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
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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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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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There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
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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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We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. 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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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
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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 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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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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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
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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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Take the kinks out your mind, not your hair.
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Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
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The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
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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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