Marcus Garvey Quotes


I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.


Citations

Garvey, Marcus. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. Edited by Robert A. Hill, vol. 3, University of California Press, 1984, p. 734.

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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey
  • Born: August 17, 1887
  • Died: June 10, 1940
  • Nationality: Jamaican
  • Profession: Publisher, Journalist

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. ONH was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.