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#1

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
― Malcom X

tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war

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#2

“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”
― Malcolm X

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#3

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth

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#4

“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.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: activism, belief, integrity, social-justice

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#5

“If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”
― Marcus Garvey

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#6

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
― Marcus Garvey

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#7

“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”
― Marcus Garvey

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#8

“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...”
― Marcus Garvey

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#9

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.”
― Marcus Garvey

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#10

“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.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

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#11

“If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

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#12

“we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

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#13

“great principles, great ideals know no nationality.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

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#14

“to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

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#15

“Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: inspirational, mind-body-spirit, nerdfighters

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#16

“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.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: black, hero, hypocrisy, jamaica, liberal, pride, race, relations, white

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#17

“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. ”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: inspirational

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