Marcus Garvey

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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.

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.

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

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

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

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

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

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

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