Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 4 Be Ambitious

"AMBITION is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul; to want that which is worthwhile and strive for it; and to go on without without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction."-Marcus Garvey

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or Africa for Africans

                    Complied by Amy Jacques Garvey 

                   First published in 1923

             http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20Phil%20and%20Opinions.pdf

Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 3 Charting Your Destiny

We Are Arbiters of Our Own Destiny

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of

0ur own creative 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. There is no height to which we cannot climb 

by using the active intelligence of our own minds. Mind 

creates, and as much as we desire in Nature we can have 

through the creation of our own minds. - Marcus Garvey 

Source: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/lifesamp.asp

Printed in the Negro World, 6 June 1925, as a front-page editorial; written in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Original headlines omitted. Creed reprinted in slightly revised form, under the title "African Fundamentalism," as a UNIA poster, sold by mail order through the Negro World by Amy Jacques Garvey, 1925.

Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 2 Self-Reliance

"CHANCE has never yet satisfied the hopes 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  

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or Africa for Africans 
                    Compiled by Amy Jacques Garvey
                    First published in 1923 
                    http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20Phil%20and%20Opinions.pdf