Marcus Garvey
10 quotes
“Where is the black man's Government?”
“I read "Up From Slavery," by Booker T. Washington, and then my doom”
“Indeed Haile Selassie has proved the incompetence of the Negro for political authority, but thank God there are Negroes who realise that Haile Selassie did not represent the truest qualities of the Negro race. How could he, when he wanted to play white? How could he, when he surrounded himself with white influence? How could he, when in a modern world, and in a progressive civilization, he preferred a slave State of black men than a free democratic country where the black citizens could rise to the same opportunities as white citizens in their democracies?”
“The Failure of Haile Selassie as Emperor”
“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started. Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey: or, Africa for the Africans (Routledge, 1967), P. 10. ISBN 0714611433 .”
“The Work That Has Been Done”
“We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism. 1937 interview reported by Joel A. Rogers, "Marcus Garvey," in Negroes of New York series, New York Writers Program, 1939, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.”
“Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. Reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. ISBN 0312307446 .”
“Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country… The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey or Africa for the Africans (Majority Press, 1986 ed.), p. 163. ISBN 0912469242 .”
“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life. First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison" (10 February 1925).”