“The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.” IfsMenHas BeensMillionsSuccessfulMarchOrganize Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.” PeopleAbleBlackLeaderEnemyGuiltFingersExpensesSuspicionEnriching Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars; some wealthy Black people gave money to make that March a success - and every nickel, every dime, every dollar was accounted for.” PeopleMenNationsBlackPoorMillionsDollarsIslamMarchWealthyBlack PeoplePoor PeopleDimesContributorsNickelsNation Of Islam Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more interested in pleasing Him than pleasing ego or vanity.” IfsWould BeEgoDeserveCreditVanity Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury or a religious leader who teaches moral law and values can be charged with the errant behavior of a parishioner or congregant who may violate their moral teachings. That is on the individual.” MayLawValuesIndividualReligiousLeaderMoralTeachTeachingBehaviorResponsibleContraryRomePopeMoral LawReligious LeadersCanterbury Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said no matter how much they attacked him and the Nation of Islam under his leadership, they only helped the Nation to grow. So, the more they attacked me and the more I withstood that onslaught, the more thousands of people came out to, at least, hear a man that was being so vilified in the media. When they recognized that they were not hurting but helping me, they decided they wouldn't say anything except to continue to discredit. So, there is a conscious effort not to publicize anything that the Nation is doing of value.” PeopleMenSaidMatterHelpingValuesNationsGrowsHurtEffortMediaConsciousDecidedIslamHonorableSay AnythingMuhammadElijahDiscreditElijah MuhammadNation Of IslamHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We are not a creature of the media, so we are not depending on the media publicizing us to make us successful.” SuccessfulMediaCreatures Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Our success depends on us, our unity, and our willingness to submit to the will of Allah (God).” DependsUnityWillingnessSubmit Author:Louis Farrakhan
“In the Bible and Holy Qur'an, God shows us through the life of His prophets and messengers that none of them came into the world to do their work without severe opposition against them. That was with Abraham, Noah, Lot, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them all and all the prophets and messengers in between. That is our role today.” WorldShowsTodayJesusRolesHolyProphetOppositionSevereMosesMuhammadAbrahamMessengers Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our lives, to civilize ourselves and others, and to form a nation for His glory - and we are attacked by the government and maligned and evil spoken of, that is exactly why Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount said, "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My namesake."” IfsMenSaidGovernmentFormEvilJesusNationsOur LivesGloryBasesBlessedReformSermonsSermon On The MountNamesake Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We cannot escape what the prophets of God did not escape. If we bear it patiently and remain strong and united, Allah (God) says in the Qur'an that He loves those who are patient and steadfast under trial. We want to be those whom Allah (God) loves.” IfsWantStrongUnitedBearsPatientTrialsGod LoveProphetSteadfast Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Our time of trouble is because we have not paid good attention to the Messenger of God that He raised among us to warn us of the days that we are now witnessing; days when factories closed and long lines of persons looking for a job. He asked us to get up and do something for ourselves before we were forced to do it. Unfortunately we did not listen.” LongAttentionTroubleTimes Of Trouble Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The violence that has been going on incessantly in our community, getting worse and worse by the day, when we are slaughtering ourselves in unprecedented numbers; filled with self-hatred for each other in a spirit of retaliation and revenge. You kill my dog, I'll kill your cat, as though there are no consequences for this behavior, I have warned us about for the last three, nearly four decades telling our people we're going to have to pay a price for this.” PeopleSpiritCommunityViolenceDogBehaviorConsequenceCatRevengeMy DogIncessantlyRetaliation Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Donald Trump has brought into his cabinet James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is Secretary of Defense. A "mad dog" is a dangerous creature. And to think of sending such a man with such a reputation into Chicago after he, President Trump, has said to our mayor and the police department: "You all better get this violence thing straight or we'll have to help you do it." They're intending to come and search homes for weapons and kill those who would advance opposition, a slaughter.” ThinkingMenHelpingHomePresidentViolenceDogDangerousPoliceMadReputationSecretary Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said when the children of Israel rebelled against Moses and Aaron and did not want to leave their slavemaster to build an independent nation of their own under the guidance of God, God chastised them with fiery serpents and cockatrices. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad asked me one day, "do you know what it means fiery serpents"? I said, "no sir." He said, "It means angry White people."” PeopleMeanChildrenOne DayIndependentGuidanceHonorableMosesMuhammadSerpentElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“White people are getting more and more angry every day, Donald Trump was elected that the mask of civility - like an onion peeling - is being peeled off. Now naked hatred, not only in word but in deed, is being openly shown to us.” PeopleHatredMaskCivility Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Brothers and sisters, white people will come in to chastise us. But since we are no longer forsaken, and are the people of God, God will answer whatever they do of evil to us. I'm warning the government and I am warning General James Mattis, and all those who would kill us outside of the law of justice, that the God of justice will pay you back in full.” PeopleEvilJusticeBrotherGods WillBrothers And SistersForsaken Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I'll start with the reality. If we're having problems nationally, we're having problems on the state level and then on the local level, what message is that sending to Black people who are not supposed to be intelligent but the grassroots understand? What that means in this time, as in the time of Moses, it means buckle on your boots and shoes and let's get the hell out of here. As the boys said in the movie; it's time to get out.” PeopleMeanProblemRealityBlackBoysHellIntelligentBlack PeopleMoses Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The greatest gift of God to us today is right guidance. The enemy has money that he can throw at problems but the problems never get solved because we're violating the good guidance and warning that God sent to us through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.” ProblemTodayEnemyGuidanceHonorableMuhammadGift From GodElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We don't know whether we'll be able to go to school because of budgetary constraints; that might not be bad because the schools are not doing anything of value for our children in the first place. Jesus said you can tell a tree by the fruit it bears and if the educational system of White America is good for us, where is the fruit from that system that says so?” ChildrenSchoolValuesJesusTreeOur ChildrenEducational Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.” DreamSufferingBlackNightmareAmerican DreamRefugee Author:Louis Farrakhan
“White people won't give you nothing because in their minds you don't deserve nothing. If the schools close, the hell with that every church should be a school. And then we should take over the schools in our own community that they closed down. Open them up and then make the government give us our tax dollars that we pay for an education that we don't receive.” PeopleGivingMindSchoolCommunityChurchHellTaxesDeserve Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Give us back our tax dollars that we pay for police who do not serve nor protect. Then maybe we can educate our people, make them a better people and make our community a more decent and safe place to live.” PeopleGivingCommunityProtectTaxesPoliceDecentEducate Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Let's stop all of this foolishness and come together as a people or we will deserve the chastisement of God that is about to come down. Especially on the rich and the professional well-educated Black person who could make a way in the desert for our people, but you're so tied to your slavemasters and their children. You don't want to leave them nor do you want to lead your people into doing something for self. We're at the end of it now.” PeopleChildrenTogetherBlackRichDeserveFoolishness Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Segregation was ugly but we made something good out of something ugly. Since we were not welcome in other places run by White people, we were forced by circumstances to let our dollars circulate in our own communities. When you were young and I was young, there was a plethora of Black businesses. But when White folks said, "yes, come and spend your money with us," we ran downtown when we could only pass through downtown. Now downtown has our money.” PeopleRunningBlackCommunityCircumstancesUglyWelcomeRanSegregation Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major league that was the beginning of the crushing of Black baseball teams and leagues.” BlackTeamBaseballLeagueCrushMajor League Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Where are the Black businesses? They're not here. The Koreans are here, the Chinese are here, the Arabs are here, the Indians are here. Everybody that wants to make a dollar is making a dollar on our lack of thought to do something for ourselves that was not present in that older generation that came from the South.” BlackChineseKorean Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The trade schools closed, so young Black men don't know how to build a house, or put a roof on a house or build cabinets anymore. We used to go to school to learn how to make ourselves useful in the trades. Then a man by the name of Samuel Gompers, a Jewish fellow, brought tradespeople from Eastern Europe, unions started and kept us out. We're having a problem on the national level, on the state level and on the local level because it's telling us that the White man doesn't want you anymore. You have no place in his house anymore except to be a little flunky around the door.” MenProblemSchoolHouseBlackTradeRoofEastern Author:Louis Farrakhan
“What does God want us to do? As He did with the children of Israel in Egypt - He wanted the children of Israel to separate into a state or territory of our own. You're going to have to decide. Some of you want to stay - stay. Some of you want to be White - be White. But we want to be ourselves; we want something that we can pass on to our children other than a cheap job and a hustle selling drugs and pimping our women.” ChildrenDrugOur ChildrenSellingWant UHustle Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We need to recognize what Elijah Muhammad said, listen to his words: "We are a nation in a nation." Why not use these 22 million at that time - 50 million people's power for their eternal salvation instead of temporary enjoyment with the same wicked people who murder our people?” PeopleMurderSalvationEnjoymentWickedTemporaryMuhammadElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Let us build our own political machine. You've been in the Democratic Party, you got nothing. We were Republicans at one time, at least, we had a fake declaration of emancipation. No, if you and I unite with that man, and that man is Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger-Messiah, with the help of Allah he said, I will get you what you want and I know what you want for I am your brother.” MenHelpingPoliticalPartyBrotherRepublicanDemocraticFakeDeclarationDemocratic PartyMuhammadEmancipationElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If we're united, I wouldn't care about a White school board getting me a little something. The hell with the school board; that's the White supremacy board and the White supremacy board wants you reading stupid books rooted in the idea of White supremacy. I don't want a thing to do with White supremacy.” BookCareSchoolReadingHellStupidWhite Supremacy Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I want to deal with the truth and a proper education that will not allow us to be educated and then come out and beg another man for a job when you should be creating a job for yourself.” MenEducated Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We want to be with ourselves in a land of our own under the guidance of God.” Guidance Author:Louis Farrakhan
“First thing we have to do is recognize the time. We're at the end of the time of the White world to dominate Black people and Original People all over the planet.Can't you see that the God of justice is whipping the hell out of America with the storms, with floods, with hell, with hurricanes, with tornadoes; can't you see that things are happening? The clouds of war are gathering. Donald Trump is the right man in the right place in the White House for White people at the time of the end of their power to rule over us. He's going to bring it on.” PeopleMenWorldWarHouseBlackJusticeHellStormBlack PeopleFlood Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I say, "go 'head Donald Trump bring it on" because this is the war to end all wars. No warmonger will live after this one jumps off. And the people that I'm looking at, they're no longer afraid of the big bad wolf. So you can bring your Mother Of All Bombs. You can bring everything you think you got to fight against God and the Original People of our planet but you will lose miserably.” PeopleThinkingWarMotherFighting Author:Louis Farrakhan
“You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.” WorldWarWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Louis Farrakhan
“When God gives you a door, if you want access, you go through that door. People didn't like Jesus. Oh, they had all kind of reasons to hate him but Jesus said, "I am the door. Any man who enters must come by me. If you don't come by me," he said, "you're a thief and a robber." Well, if Omarosa Manigault is the door to Donald Trump, well I kind of like that door. That's a pretty door. That's an intelligent door. That's a spiritually rooted door.” PeopleMenGivingKindReasonHateJesusIntelligentAll Kinds Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.” Justice Author:Louis Farrakhan
“During the fast of Ramadan, our minds stayed on the worship of Allah and stayed on the remembrance of the great gift to humanity of the Qur'an must mean then that following that sacredness of the Qur'an should be our actions in accord with what the Qur'an and Allah demands of the believer especially during this Sacred Month.” MindMeanActionHumanityWorshipBelieverRemembrance Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Once you are sincere in your fast, you have a sensitivity to the hurt and pain of others who are poor, who are not eating well, who are in areas where there is drought and other calamities.” PainHurtPoorEatingSincereSensitivityDrought Author:Louis Farrakhan
“As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, 'justice lays down with you when you lay down, justice gets up with you when you get up.' The requirement of this universally applicable law is that you must do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. When you wake up, you wake up to that law that whatever you put out is going to come back.” DoneJusticeWake UpHonorableMuhammadElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“During the Month of Ramadan, you should be more careful of the words that you speak to your wife, to your children, to your neighbors, in the councils that you are a part of. That counsel should always be that I want for my brother what I want for myself.” ChildrenSpeakWifeBrotherOur ChildrenCarefulNeighborYour ChildrenMy Brother Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Ramadan is a month whose beginning is Mercy, whose middle is Forgiveness and whose end is Freedom from the fire.” Mercy Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Fasting is required, staying away from fighting and arguing and bombing of masjids is still going on. Hatred is still manifested between Sunni and Shi'a, I don't know whether there is deepening of commitment to Ramadan in that part of the world.” WorldFightingCommitmentHatredArguing Author:Louis Farrakhan
“When your mind is focused and made up you don't make excuses. You try. If you fail you try again.” TryingMindFailingExcuseFocusedTry Again Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us to eat fish during the month of Ramadan. He is breaking us away from meats. That was a wonderful way to do it and use the month of Ramadan for fish. I did that too during one of my Ramadan's. We would just eat fish.Breaking away from land animals is a right thing to do.” AnimalWonderfulRight ThingHonorableMuhammadElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“A Muslim woman was found in adultery or fornication and we know that there could be no pregnancy without the agency of a man, unless we are dealing with the virgin birth. Yet no man is charged with this crime. Where is the man in this case of adultery or fornication? Why isn't he being stoned? There is science today that can prove whether the man she claims is the father of her unborn child is actually so. So, if the law was fair, then, it would be carried out on both.” MenChildrenTodayFatherCrimeHe ManBirthProvePregnancyAdulteryUnborn Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Obama has some manacles, and that might limit him. However, he's the first American president to raise $600 million for his campaign. That frees him from lobbyists; it frees him from special interests, and it could free him from those who would manipulate him. If he is going to solve the problem, he has to be free enough to solve the problem between the Israelis and the Palestinians.” EnoughProblemPresidentInterestSpecialPalestinianManipulateAmerican President Author:Louis Farrakhan
“A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed.” Has BeensAmericaJudgmentIslamDestroyedDecree Author:Louis Farrakhan
