Emancipated From Mental Slavery Quotes

“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God’s grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“One God, One Aim, One Destiny.
(Motto of the UNIA)”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of 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, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“It is hoped that when the time comes for American and West Indian Africans to settle in Africa, they will realize their responsibility and their duty. It will not be to go to Africa for the purpose of exercising an over-lordship over the natives, but it shall be the purpose of the Universal Negro Improvement Association[ii] to have established in Africa that brotherly cooperation which make the interest of the African native and the American and West Indian African one and the same, that is to say, we shall enter into a common partnership to build up Africa in the interest of our race.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our arts and sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves?”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Africans are raising the cry of “AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS”, those at home and those abroad.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Who to tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at Moses, Christ and Mohammed? Was there not a Carthage, Greece and Rome? We see and have changes every day, so pray, work, be steadfast and be not dismayed.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Hail! United States of Africa-free! Country of the brave black man's liberty; State of greater nationhood thou hast won, A new life for the race is just begun.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“For five years the Universal Negro Improvement Association has been advocating the cause of Africa for the Africans-that is, that the Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of building up for themselves a great nation in Africa.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Climb ye the heights of liberty and cease not in well doing until you have planted the banner of the Red, the Black and the Green on the hilltops of Africa.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Remodel yourselves, remake yourselves, mentally and spiritually, place responsibility in your own two hands — you are responsible for what you are, you are responsible for what you want to be, and in the final analysis you are responsible to the Creator for having failed or achieved this purpose for you.”
― Nnamdi Azikiwe, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“Let the sky and God be our limit, and Eternity our measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb by using the active intelligence of our own minds. Mind creates and as much as we desire in nature we can have through the creation of our own minds.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“If death has power, then count on me in death to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be. I may come in an earthquake, or cyclone, or plague or pestilence, or as God would have me, then be assured that I shall never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you. Would I not go to hell a million times for you?”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves?”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“It falls to our lot to tear off the shackles that bind Mother Africa. Can you do it?”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“No one knows when the hour of Africa’s Redemption cometh. It is in the wind. It is coming. One day, like a storm, it will be here.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“melanin currently worth over $380 a gram more than gold that makes Black people black;”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery