Marcus Garvey Quotes

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

I tell you that the new age has dawned, the age of holy anarchy.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Every generation needs a new revolution.