Marcus Garvey Quotes

  “All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishments of an Afrikan Empire, so strong and powerful as to compel the respect of mankind, but we in our lifetime, can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility in the next generation.”

“This is the day of racial activity, when each and every group of this great human family must exercise its own initiative and influence in its own protection, therefore, African people should be more determined today than they have ever been, because the mighty forces of the world are operating against non-organized groups of peoples, who are not ambitious enough to protect their own interests.”-       Marcus Garvey

“NATIONHOOD is the only means by which modern civilization can completely protect itself.Independence of nationality, independence of government, is the means of protecting not only the individual, but the group.Nationhood is the highest ideal of all peoples.”-       Marcus Garvey 

“The world does not count races and nations that have nothing. Point me to a weak nation and I will show you a people oppressed, abused, taken advantage of by others.Show me a weak race and I will show you a people reduced to serfdom, peonage and slavery.Show me a well organized nation, and I will show you a people and a nation respected by the world.”-       Marcus Garvey

  

Excerpted from The Philosophy And Opinions of Marcus Garvey(1968)(Ed.)Amy Jacques Garvey