168 Quotes by Marcus Garvey

The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.

The race needs workers at this time, not plagiarists, sopists and mere imitators; but men and women who are able to create, to originate and improve, and thus make an independent racial contribution to the world and civilisation.

Hail! United States of Africa-free! Country of the brave black man's liberty; State of greater nationhood thou hast won, A new life for the race is just begun.

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

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.