A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – 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
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. – Marcus Garvey
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. – Marcus Garvey
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought… – Robert G. Ingersoll