Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 17. August 1887 |
Geburtsort | Colony_of_Jamaica |
Todesort | United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland |
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Beschreibung | Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. ONH (17. August 1887 - 10. Juni 1940) war ein jamaikanischer politischer Aktivist, Verleger, Journalist, Unternehmer und Redner. Er war der Gründer und erste Generalpräsident der Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, allgemein bekannt als UNIA), mit der er sich zum provisorischen Präsidenten Afrikas erklärte. Ideologisch war er ein schwarzer Nationalist und Panafrikanist, seine Ideen wurden als Garveyismus bekannt. |
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
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.
