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.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
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.
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.
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
The whole world is run on bluff.
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
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.
We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.
