Garvey Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Garvey

Garvey Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Garvey quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory. — Marcus Garvey

All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict. — Ed Garvey

The clerestory is so high that clouds form there. Angels have been seen up in the vaults. — John Evan Garvey

She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her. — Marcus Garvey

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will. — Marcus Garvey

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one. — Guy Garvey

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem. — Guy Garvey

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time. — Marcus Garvey

I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example. — Steve Garvey

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan. — Steve Garvey

I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road. — Guy Garvey

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters. — Marcus Garvey

I like honesty and fair play. — Marcus Garvey

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world — Marcus Garvey

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. — Marcus Garvey

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. — Marcus Garvey

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race. — Marcus Garvey

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. — Marcus Garvey

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself. — Marcus Garvey

Africa for the Africans ... at home and abroad! — Marcus Garvey

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. — Marcus Garvey

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself. — Marcus Garvey

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. — Marcus Garvey

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that. — Steve Garvey

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

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do. — Marcus Garvey

No sleeves . . . no problem — Paul Garvey

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. — Marcus Garvey

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

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future. — W. Timothy Garvey

The whole world is run on bluff. — Marcus Garvey

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God. — Marcus Garvey

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand! — Marcus Garvey

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race. — Marcus Garvey

Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it. — Steve Garvey

Baseball is the life. — Steve Garvey

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward. — Marcus Garvey

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. — Marcus Garvey

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are
a fool — Marcus Garvey

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it. — Marcus Garvey

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

Do not remove the kinks from your hair
remove them from your brain. — Marcus Garvey

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers. — Steve Garvey

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own. — Marcus Garvey

The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization. — Marcus Garvey

I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people. — Steve Garvey

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. — Marcus Garvey

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing. — Guy Garvey

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific. — Marcus Garvey

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it. — Marcus Garvey

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. — Steve Garvey

I usually tell somebody if a song's for them. I don't always tell them if it's about them. — Guy Garvey

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

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do. — Marcus Garvey

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service. — Marcus Garvey

The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around. — Steve Garvey

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance ... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being. — Marcus Garvey

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. — Marcus Garvey

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. — Guy Garvey

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness. — Marcus Garvey

The greatest possesion of man is character — Marcus Garvey

Take the kinks out your mind, not your hair. — Marcus Garvey

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind. — Marcus Garvey

to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top. — Marcus Garvey

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy. — Steve Garvey

Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you. — Amy Jacques-Garvey

What I wanted was to blow a hole in the sky, explode a star, let the burning embers scorch me and everything they touched. — Amy Garvey

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves. — Marcus Garvey

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden ... — Marcus Garvey

When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will. — Marcus Garvey

Love doesn't break easily, I found. But people do. — Amy Garvey

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world. — Marcus Garvey

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice. — Marcus Garvey

A people without the knowledge of ... — Marcus Garvey

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. — Stokely Carmichael

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard. — Marcus Garvey

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned. — Marcus Garvey

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them. — K.E. Garvey

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves. — Marcus Garvey

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. — Marcus Garvey

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. — Marcus Garvey

The perfect size is happy" -Garvey — Nikki Grimes

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty. — Marcus Garvey

With confidence, you have won before you have started. — Marcus Garvey

great principles, great ideals know no nationality. — Marcus Garvey

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me. — Steve Garvey

As long as people are listening that's all that matters. — Guy Garvey

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. — Marcus Garvey

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. — Marcus Garvey

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life. — Marcus Garvey

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. — Marcus Garvey

The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you? — Marcus Garvey

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big. — John Kruk

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward. — Marcus Garvey

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do. — Marcus Garvey

Had ideas, crazy, late-night fantasies strung together like a paper-clip chain. — Amy Garvey

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear. — Marcus Garvey

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director. — Guy Garvey

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad. — Steve Garvey