

“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.”
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”
― Salem Falls
― Salem Falls

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.”
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“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.”
― Selected Writings and Speeches of 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.”
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
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