14 Quotes By Marcus Garvey


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.
Marcus Garvey on god

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.
Marcus Garvey on good

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.
Marcus Garvey on great

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

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
Marcus Garvey on home

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

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

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

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.
Marcus Garvey on life

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

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey on men

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.
Marcus Garvey on nature

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.
Marcus Garvey on success

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey on success