A biography for Marcus Garveyhasn’t been written yet.
“Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.”
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.”
“The whole world is run on bluff.”
“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
“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.”
“Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.”
“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.”
“I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.”
“The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.”
“Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.”
“If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
“Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!”
“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.”
“Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.”
“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.”
“There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.”