Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey Quotes

“great principles, great ideals know no nationality.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“You at this time can only be destroyed by yourselves, from within and not from without. You have reached the point where the victory is to be won from within and can only be lost from within.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Having had the wrong education as a start in his racial career, the Negro has become his own greatest enemy. Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes. Booker Washington aptly described the race in one of his lectures by stating that we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out. Yet, those of us with vision cannot desert the race, leaving it to suffer and die.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that God accorded to us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise. The moment you accept such an attitude, the moment you accept such an opinion, the moment you harbor such an idea, you hurl an insult at the great God who created you, because you question Him for His love, you question Him for His mercy.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“The race needs workers at this time, not plagiarists, sopists and mere imitators; but men and women who are able to create, to originate and improve, and thus make an independent racial contribution to the world and civilisation.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“was the crying voice from the grave that said, ‘Garvey, we have suffered for 250 years for your day and for your time; we expect something from you at this hour.’”16”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“whipped. It annoys me to be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Every student of political science, every student of political economy, every student of economics knows that the race can only be saved through a solid industrial foundation; that the race can only be saved through political independence. Take away industry from a race, take away political freedom from a race and you have a slave race.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Ideals of liberty , freedom and righteousness do not prosper in the 20th century excepts they coincide with oil, rubber, gold, diamond, coal, iron, sugar, coffee, and such other minerals and products desired by the privileged, capitalists and leaders who control the system of government.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Pay no attention to the man who criticizes unless he is doing something better than what he criticizes”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Pay no attention to the man who criticizes unless he is doing something better than what he criticizes.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey