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Marcus Garvey

British actor known for Hijack, Fool Me Once, Eurovision Song Contest, Four Lions, and Broadchurch

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Marcus Garvey

British actor known for Hijack, Fool Me Once, Eurovision Song Contest, Four Lions, and Broadchurch

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“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).
“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. .
“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. .
“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.
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind, because man is related to man under all circumstances for good or for ill.”
— Speaking during a speech entitled "The Work That Has Been Done" at Menelik Hall, Sydney, Nova Scotia on Sunday, October 31, 1937. Hill, R. A., Garvey, M. (1983). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VII: November 1927-August 1940. United Kingdom: University of California Press, P. 794.
“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. .

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“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).
“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. .
“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. .
“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.
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind, because man is related to man under all circumstances for good or for ill.”
— Speaking during a speech entitled "The Work That Has Been Done" at Menelik Hall, Sydney, Nova Scotia on Sunday, October 31, 1937. Hill, R. A., Garvey, M. (1983). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VII: November 1927-August 1940. United Kingdom: University of California Press, P. 794.
“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. .

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.