Marcus Garvey citations

„Ce que tu fais de valeureux aujourd’hui inspire les actions des autres dans le futur.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Dieu et la Nature nous ont fait ce que nous sommes, mais à travers notre génie créateur nous faisons de nous-mêmes ce que nous voulons être.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Une race sans aucune autorité et sans aucun pouvoir est une race qui ne se respecte pas.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Les hommes affamés n'ont aucun respect pour la loi, l'autorité ou la vie humaine.“

—  Marcus Garvey

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
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Le terme affamé doit être compris aussi bien au sens propre qu'au figuré.
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„La seule protection contre l’injustice de l’homme est le pouvoir physique, financier, scientifique.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Si tu n’as aucune foi en toi-même tu es doublement vaincu dans la course de la vie. Avec la foi tu as gagné avant même d’avoir commencé
Il est possible que nous vivions pas tous la réalité d’un empire africain si fort, si puissant qu’il imposerait le respect à l’humanité, mais nous pouvons cependant durant notre vie travailler et œuvrer à faire de ce projet une réalité pour une autre génération.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Soyez autant fiers de votre race aujourd’hui que l’étaient vos pères dans le passé. Nous avons une histoire magnifique, et nous allons en créer une autre dans l’avenir qui étonnera le monde“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Un peuple ignorant de son histoire est comme un arbre sans racines.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Pendant plus de trois cents ans l’homme blanc a été notre oppresseur, et il ne nous accordera pas de bon gré la vraie liberté… Nous devrons nous libérer nous-mêmes.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„L’éducation est le moyen par lequel un peuple se prépare pour la création de sa civilisation propre et aussi l’avancement et la gloire de sa propre race.“

—  Marcus Garvey

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„Un seul Dieu, un seul But, un seul Destin.“

—  Marcus Garvey

One Aim, One God, One Destiny .
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Devise de l’Association Universelle pour le Progrès des Noirs.
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„A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.“

—  Marcus Garvey

Though often attributed to Garvey, this statement first appears in Charles Siefert's 1938 pamphlet, The Negro's or Ethiopian's Contribution to Art.
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„When the war started in Abyssinia all Negro nationalists looked with hope to Haile Selassie. They spoke for him, they prayed for him, they sung for him, they did everything to hold up his hands, as Aaron did for Moses; but whilst the Negro peoples of the world were praying for the success of Abyssinia this little Emperor was undermining the fabric of his own kingdom by playing the fool with white men, having them advising him[, ] having them telling him what to do, how to surrender, how to call off the successful thrusts of his [Race] against the Italian invaders. Yes, they were telling him how to prepare his flight, and like an imbecilic child he followed every advice and then ultimately ran away from his country to England, leaving his people to be massacred by the Italians, and leaving the serious white world to laugh at every Negro and repeat the charge and snare - "he is incompetent," "we told you so." Indeed Haile Selassie has proved the incompetence of the Negro for political authority, but thank God there are Negroes who realise that Haile Selassie did not represent the truest qualities of the Negro race. How could he, when he wanted to play white? How could he, when he surrounded himself with white influence? How could he, when in a modern world, and in a progressive civilization, he preferred a slave State of black men than a free democratic country where the black citizens could rise to the same opportunities as white citizens in their democracies?“

—  Marcus Garvey

The Failure of Haile Selassie as Emperor in The Blackman, April, 1937.

„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

Source: Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

„Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.“

—  Marcus Garvey

„If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.“

—  Marcus Garvey

Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey: or, Africa for the Africans‎ (Routledge, 1967), P. 10. ISBN 0714611433.

„Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden…“

—  Marcus Garvey

„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

„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