Home / Authors / Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey Quotes

Publisher

Marcus Garvey, born on August 17, 1887, and died on June 10, 1940, was a prominent publisher, politician, social activist, and leader of the Black Rights Movement from Jamaica. He advocated for African nationalism and the idea of black people returning to Africa, promoting the concepts of black self-determination and unity on a global scale.

Filter quotes by topic

All Men Race World Ifs People Black Nations Humans Self African American Mind Civilization Want Giving Godly Knows Thinking Use White Body

Famous Marcus Garvey Quotes

“Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has forgotten them and that they can't rise because of their color.. we can only build... with faith in ourselves and with self-reliance, believing in our own possibilities, that we can rise to the highest in God's creation.”

People Believe Self Helping Teach Creation Possibility Color Highest Forgotten Self Reliance Godly Reliance God's Creation

Author:Marcus Garvey

“God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.”

Thinking World Use Creating Creator Motive Almighty Godly Places In The World

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945

“God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.”

People Men Want Giving Doe Home Jobs Desire Nations Cities Conditions Position Praying Towns Factories Godly Praying To God

Author:Marcus Garvey

“It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.”

Men Humans Able Moving Belief Social Human Beings Institutions Rational Godly Social Institutions

Book:Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

Source: Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Two Christianity Believer Godly

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself. No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.”

Ifs Thinking Men Persons Two Seems Christian Belief Christ Christianity Opinion Believer Every Man Ethical Godly Opinions And Beliefs

Book:Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey

Source: Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey