Marcus Garvey

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.