“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.”

Marcus Garvey United States

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.”

Marcus Garvey United States

“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come… to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.”

Marcus Garvey United States

“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.”

Marcus Garvey United States

“I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.”

Marcus Garvey United States

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

Nelson Mandela South Africa

“Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”

Kwame Nkrumah Ghana

“It's true, you cannot kill ideas. Ideas do not die.”

Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso