Marcus Garvey Quotes About Culture
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We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
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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?
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No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.
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