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Marcus Garvey Biography

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a proponent of Black nationalism in the United States and most importantly Jamaica. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. Although most American Black leaders condemned his methods and his support for racial segregation, Garvey attracted a large following. The Black Star Line went bankrupt and Garvey was imprisoned for mail fraud in the selling of its stock. His movement then rapidly collapsed.

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Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

Ambition, Brother, Let, Man, Pull, Stars

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

Being The Best, Effort, Make, Trying, Worst

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

Careful, Civilization, Drink, Effects, Poison

Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.

Comparable, Men, Opportunity, Races, Successful

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Great Idea, Ideals, Know, Nationality, Principles

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

Disrespect, Greatness, Likely, People

They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible. Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.

Running, Men, Brain, Laborer, Business, Impossible

All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and seems to delight in filling only that place created for him by the white man.

Struggle, Men, Race, Failed, Significance, Filling

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

Knows, Person, Search, Use, Want, World

A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he finds how miserable he is. It is all joy, it sweetens life, but it does not last. It comes and goes, but when it is active, there is no greater virtue, because it makes one supremely happy.

Believe, Finds, Life, Love, Men, Supremely

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Look, Looks, Storm, Whirlwind

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

Done, Holds, Human, Men, Power

Africa with 400 million Black People can do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you will DIE. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for-nothings, if you cannot do what other men have done, what other nations have done, what other races have done, THEN YOU HAD BETTER DIE.

Africa, Men, Million, People, Race, Races

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Chance, Memorial Day, People, Satisfied, Suffering

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Friendship, History, Knowledge, Love, People, Relationship

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

Call, Dawned, Dream, Leader, Race

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Attraction, Humanity, Moves, Moving, Progress

No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

Men, Thinking, Race, Man, World

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Courage, Faith, Forward, Lose, Loses

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

African American, Common, Man, Men, Words Of Wisdom, World

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