Message to the People Quotes

“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.”
― Marcus Garvey, Message To The People

“Continue always in the application of the things you desire educationally, culturally, or otherwise, and never give up until you reach the objective, and you can reach the objective if others have done so before you, proving by their doing it that it is possible. In your desire to accomplish greatness, you must first decide in your own mind in what direction you desire to seek that greatness, and when you have so decided in your own mind work unceasingly towards it. The particular thing that you may want should be before you all the time, and whatsoever it takes to get it or make it possible should be undertaken.”
― Marcus Garvey, Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

“Never keep the constant company of anybody who doesn’t know as much as you or [is] as educated as you, and from whom you cannot learn something or reciprocate your learning, especially, if that person is illiterate or ignorant because constant association with such a person will unconsciously cause you to drift into the peculiar culture or ignorance of that person. Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something.”
― Marcus Garvey, Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy