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Great Quotes by Black Leaders About The Right and Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey

TheAbenG by TheAbenG
June 7, 2022
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 Marcus Garvey statue, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.”
~Kwame Nkrumah
“It has warmed us that so many of our brothers from across the seas are with us. We take their presence here as a manifestation of the keen interest in our struggle for a free Africa. We must never forget that they are a part of us. These sons and daughters of Africa were taken away from our shores and, despite the centuries which have separated us, they have not forgotten their ancestral links. Many of them made no small contribution to the cause of freedom, A name that springs immediately to mind in this connection is Marcus Garvey. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.”
~Kwame Nkrumah
Malcolm X
Malcolm X

“Everytime you see another nation on the African continent become independent, you know that Marcus Garvey is alive. It was Marcus Garvey’s philosophy of Pan-Africanism that initiated the entire Freedom Movement which brought about the independence of African (and Caribbean) nations.”
~Malcolm X

“When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home…brandishing their shotguns and rifles the shouted for my father to come out…The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we had better get out of town because ‘the good Christian White people’ were not going to stand for my father’s spreading among the ‘good’ Negroes of Omaha with the ‘Back-to-Africa’ preachings of Marcus Garvey.”
~Malcolm X
“Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness…He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.”
~Dr. Walter Rodney
“They didn’t want Garvey to speak in New Orleans. We had a delegation to go to the mayor, and the next night, they allowed him to come. And we all was armed. Everybody had bags of ammunition, too. So when Garvey came in, we applauded, and the police were lined man to man along the line of each bench. So Mr. Garvey said, ‘My friends, I want to apologize for not speaking to you last night. But the reason I didn’t was because the mayor of the city of New Orleans committed himself to act as a stooge for the police department to prevent me from speaking.’ And the police jumped up and said, ‘I’ll run you in.’ When he did this, everybody jumped up on the benches and pulled out their guns and just held the guns up in the air and said, ‘Speak, Garvey, speak!’ And Garvey said, ‘As I was saying,’ and he went on and repeated what he had said before, and the police filed out the hall like little puppy dogs with their tails behind them. So that was radical enough.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

~Queen Mother Audley Moore

“…the first man, on a mass scale to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny.”
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jomo Kenyatta

“In 1921, Kenyan Nationalists, unable to read, would gather round a reader of Garvey’s newspaper, The Negro World, and to listen to an article two or three times. Then they would run through the forest carefully to repeat the whole, which they had memorized, to Africans hungry for some doctrine which lifted them from the servile consciousness in which Africans lived.”

~Jomo Kenyatta

“Marcus Garvey is a prophet…”
~Bob Marley

“I & I will never forget no way/ they sold Marcus Gavey for rice…” -in the song So Much Things to Say

~Bob Marley
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Comments 4

  1. Think-About-It says:
    13 years ago

    "Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality."

    That right there, we must think about. Self-check for degradation is a must. Can't move in the right direction without doing that first.

    Reply
  2. Kaya says:
    13 years ago

    @Think-About-It The right direction is paved with a strong sense of Self Identity, which Garvey trumpeted as well

    Reply
  3. Unknown says:
    13 years ago

    Interesting post ! I enjoyed reading it!
    Thanks for sharing this useful info.keep updating same way.
    Cheers,
    Ramesh Kumar
    Leadership Training Program Company

    Reply
  4. Mwariama Kamau says:
    12 years ago

    The words of Reverdy Ransome and Charles Hamilton Houston are equally profound and significant. I'll retrieve them for the site later. Long live the Patron Saint of Universal Afrikan Nationalism!

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/Millions4MarcusGarvey/

    Reply

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