Marcus Garvey Quotes


Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.


Citations

Garvey, Marcus. Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy. Edited by Tony Martin, The Majority Press, 1986.

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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.