To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.

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

Our success educationally, industrially, and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

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

Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad!

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

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

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

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.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation until you have reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

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.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

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

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

American suffragist, speech “Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?” at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

We welcome the opposition of the world because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa’s battle-cry is not yet heard.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

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

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

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

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

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

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.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

The whole world is run on the bluff.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

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.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs, and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

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

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

I like honesty and fair play.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.