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Marcus Garvey

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Marcus Garvey is one of those voices you encounter and immediately want to hear more from. Their thinking spans from Success to Men, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. 14 of Marcus Garvey's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Success, Men, Life, Nature, and Knowledge. A favorite of many readers: "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.”

— Marcus Garvey

Hope

All Quotes by Marcus Garvey

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

— Marcus Garvey

History

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

— Marcus Garvey

Life

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

— Marcus Garvey

Hope

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

— Marcus Garvey

Men

“Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!”

— Marcus Garvey

Home

“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

God

“Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.”

— Marcus Garvey

Men

“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

Life

“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

Good

“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

Success