Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., National Hero of Jamaica (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black nationalist, orator, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).
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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. ISBN 0912469242.
- 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. ISBN 0312307446.
- 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.
- 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. ISBN 0714611433.
- A Man Without History is a Tree Without Roots.
