Marcus Garvey Quotes


Always think yourself a perfect being and be satisfied with yourself.


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Marcus Garvey, 1887-1940, Black Nationalist Leader and Founder, Universal Negro Improvement Association, Advice to Blacks, Quoted in PBS Marcus Garvey, February 12, 2001

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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.