When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and l… - Marcus Garvey

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. 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, because man is related to man under all circumstances for good or for ill.

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.

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.