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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

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Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…

We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.

Fascism is the cult of organised murder, invented by the arch-enemies of society. It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

Authors take Sides on the Spanish War (1937)

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 left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

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