Marcus Garvey Quotes - Page 5

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.

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.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

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.

Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

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.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

The whole world is run on bluff.

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

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.

American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.