Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent.
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist.
We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
Africa is one continent, one people and one nation.
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.