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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
Pan-Africanist leader
Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey: or, Africa for the Africans (Routledge, 1967), P. 10. .
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