“The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.” PeopleThinkingRealFatherNationsWhiteCitizensConstitutionBurdenAfrican AmericanNativeNative AmericanFoundingSeals Book:A Torchlight for America Source: A Torchlight for America
“I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals and people, which is against the spirit of Islam. While I stand by the truths that he spoke, I must condemn in the strongest terms the manner in which those truths were represented.” PeopleMeanSpiritFoundIndividualTermListeningSpeechIslamSpokesStrongestMockerySpiritedMaliciousMean Spirited Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.” PeopleBelieveStatesGovernmentI BelieveUnitedNumbersUnited StatesInfluenceAmountExerciseAffairSmall Numbers Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.” PeopleColorWorthyOur FamilyKinfolk Author:Louis Farrakhan
“For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause bigger than our persons, bigger than our organizations, and the cause is to ease the suffering of the masses of our people.” PeopleFirstsPersonsSufferingCausesBlackRoomsMassPagesFirst TimeOrganizationBiggerEaseSpectrum Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.” PeopleDoneLastsSufferingDifferencesGreaterWork To Be Done Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.” PeopleShouldKindI CanWarStatesGovernmentAmericaReligionFightingBlackChurchReligiousWhiteUnitedLeaderChristianityUnited StatesBabyConstitutionIsraelSeparationBrownBlack PeopleFoundersShould ISecularUnited States Of AmericaFoundingBankingChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateOur Founding FathersReligious FreedomWar On DrugsFounding Fathers ChristianState GovernmentZionistUs Founding FathersBigotsBearing ArmsFounding Fathers ReligionSeparation Between Church And StateFounding Fathers ReligiousChristian ChurchConstitution Of The United StatesFounding Fathers Anti ReligionFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaFounding Fathers AtheistDeismBlack WhiteBanking SystemChristianity From Founding FathersChristian AtheistReligion ChristianChristian FatherUnited States GovernmentChristian HeritageUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers DemocracyReligion And GovernmentChristian RightGod DelusionAmendment 1Pledge Of AllegianceDeistGod And CountryReligious BigotryGod We TrustSecular SocietyHate ReligionChristianity And Government Author:Louis Farrakhan
“You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.” PeopleUseCareYoungPoliticalSpeakProcessYouthInvolvedUniversalInstrumentsBarackCapturedMessiah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?” PeopleThinkingMenPercentVoteElectionSaddamHusseinStarving Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.” PeopleGivingBlackCandidatesVotingBlack PeopleYardsticks Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I want our people to beware that no matter how good the promise is - it is not to be carried out. The only thing I say again that will make America safe is to: Let the Black man and woman go into a state or territory of our own, and help us in that territory for the next 20 to 25 years until we are able to go for self. This will solve the problem between Black and White. And Allah (God) promises that America will get an extension of time and the Wrath of God will be turned aside from this nation.” PeopleMenWantYearsSelfMatterStatesHelpingProblemAbleAmericaNextNationsBlackWhitePromiseSafeMen And WomenSolveGods WillTerritoryBlack And WhiteExtensionsWrathWrath Of GodGod Promises Author:Louis Farrakhan
“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.” PeopleMeanDoeCharacterGovernmentNationsBehindsDoorsLandWorstPlanetsLike YouTrumpOfficeHighestDignityCriminalsSuitsPresidentialRegimesDronesSuits YouRegime Change Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The Black and the Brown." Is that an accident? I don't think so. We are being designed to be destroyed - and unless we see that, and come together as a people under vicious attack we will suffer the consequences of evil that's in high places.” PeopleThinkingSaidSchoolTogetherSufferingEvilBlackHeardConsequenceAccidentsDestroyedBrownThey SaidViciousHigh PlacesNewark Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.” PeopleMenWorldWayWantLittlesWarSpiritualBlackReligiousWhitePoorClassDarknessBloodThis WorldFleshBrownPlotRulersWickednessRulingApostlesFlesh And BloodLittle ManHigh PlacesApostle Paul Author:Louis Farrakhan
“So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.” PeopleMenHappensTogetherWallMen And WomenIntelligentFoolishThings HappenSettlingDividesIntelligent Man Author:Louis Farrakhan
“God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.” PeopleNeedsLittlesSaidFormPoliticalHeavenBlackSinWhitePartyRepublicanRedMachinesDemocraticBrownYellowOppressedRepublican PartyPlagueDemocratic PartyMuhammadElijahElijah Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The Koreans that make their money in our community: If we have a Black bank, you'll find they don't deposit anything of what they take from us into a Black bank that would serve our community. They set up a bank in their own community. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, my Teacher, called people like this "Bloodsuckers of the poor." All they want is to make a dollar, and run.” PeopleIfsWantRunningBlackCommunityPoorTeacherDollarsHonorableMuhammadKoreanOur CommunityDepositsElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah MuhammadBloodsuckers Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I'll never violate my oath to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to work night and day for the rise of my people. I've been at this for darn near 60 years; I'm too old now to do something different.” PeopleYearsDifferentNightHonorableOathMuhammadElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.” PeopleCommunityScientistChecksScholar Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them from the rice that they were producing in Haiti to feed themselves and other Caribbean nations? You put the rice industry out of business; and now rice is coming from Arkansas, chicken coming from Arkansas, when it once was growing right there in Haiti.” PeopleIfsNationsBlackGrowingIndustryClintonChickensDestroyingBlack PeopleRiceHaitiCaribbeanArkansas Author:Louis Farrakhan
“You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody” PeopleGivingHandsAmericaResponsibilityHellClintonBloodyTaking ResponsibilityHaitiCaribbeanOnly In America Author:Louis Farrakhan
“What is demanded by God today is not a message to a particular people alone, a message is demanded for the whole of humanity who has suffered under the 6,000-year rule of Satan (or "Shaitan"); whose evil is not confined to himself but is spread to all the corners of the Earth.” PeopleYearsWholeTodayEarthHumanityEvilParticularMessagesCornersSpreadSatanConfined Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than others, but chosen because of the uniqueness of our position inside of America, and 460 years under slavery, neo-slavery, and injustice, to carry a message to the whole of humanity.” PeopleYearsWholeAmericaHumanityBlackSpecialPositionMessagesSlaveryInjusticeChosenBlack PeopleUniqueness Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.” PeopleIfsWellsMayStatesOrderHousePresidentUnitedExistenceUnited StatesTrumpRepublicanProgramCourtIncludingAcceptedSupremeBarackExecutivesSenateRepresentativesSupreme CourtCubaPresident Barack ObamaNominationsHouse Of RepresentativesExecutive OrdersThawing Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If Donald Trump dismantles the agreement [the "Iran nuclear deal"] won by President Barack Obama with President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian government and people: If he dismantles that, and puts greater sanctions on Iran, then we are leading to another war; another war inspired by Israel, another war that will bring China into war, Russia into war, Europe into war. And the Western world, in this war, will be taken completely down, and a whole new world is on the horizon.” PeopleIfsWorldWarWholeGovernmentPresidentDealsTakenGreaterTrumpEuropeDown AndWesternInspiredIsraelChinaNuclearRussiaBarackAgreementIranHorizonNew WorldSanctionsIranianPresident Barack ObamaWestern WorldHassan Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I am warning my people, but I'm also warning Iran, and warning Saudi Arabia, and warning China and Russia and Europe. We are at the end of this world.” PeopleWorldEndsThis WorldEuropeChinaRussiaIranWarningArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.” PeopleIfsMindHeartSpiritHumanityExpressionRevolutionUniversalHeart And MindHis LovePardonCubaCubanCastroCuban RevolutionLove For Humanity Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Comandante Fidel Castro sent his people there into Africa, in the Caribbean; they died right alongside of others who were seeking the blessing of justice and freedom and equity. What other man do you know who did such a thing?” PeopleKnowsMenJusticeBlessingDiedSeekingDo You KnowEquityCaribbeanCastro Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge.” PeopleCareChallengesUniversalHealth CareNo MoneyCubanCastroEducation For AllUniversal EducationUniversal Health Care Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God."” PeopleCommunistMessengersCastroMessenger Of God Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership!” PeopleReligiousExampleRitualHypocriticalBuryingReligious Rituals Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand the truth of it but won't teach the truth of it to awaken the masses of the people: so, the leaders live in luxury at the expense of the weak, at the expense of the poor.” PeoplePoorLeaderTeachMassWeakLuxuryExpensesRitualElites Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I hope to come back to Iran again if it pleases Allah; I hope to be your guest again, and I hope that Allah will bless me to speak at Salat al-Jumu'ah. I pray for our success and the success of all good thinking righteous people who want to see a world come into existence that is better than the world that we inherited.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantSpeakExistencePrayingPleaseIranBlessAlsGuestsRighteousI PrayGood Thinking Author:Louis Farrakhan
“There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be linked to the struggle of our people in every part of the earth. Every leader that was international in scope and in reach became the target of the government - Paul Robeson, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Kwame Ture and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Any Black leader who would try to connect us to our brothers and sisters in Africa and Asia were seen as a threat and became a target.” PeopleShouldTryingHas BeensGovernmentEarthAmericaDesireBlackLeaderStruggleBrotherKingsThreatInternationalTargetBlack PeopleHonorableAsiaBrothers And SistersLinkedScopeLutherMuhammadElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah MuhammadDubois Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I don't believe we have ever had a Black leader that was so widely accepted among the masses of people, as well as the leadership, in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, as Allah (God) has blessed me to be accepted.” PeopleBelieveWellsAmericaBlackLeaderMiddleMassBlessedDon't BelieveEastAcceptedMiddle EastAsiaCaribbeanCentral AmericaEast AsiaGod Has Blessed Me Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Now we have to think, not in terms of what is good for an individual or a segment of the population or an organization or a sect of Christianity or Islam or Judaism, we have to think today of what is in the best interest of the whole of our people.” PeopleThinkingWholeTodayIndividualTermInterestChristianityOrganizationIslamPopulationJudaismSects Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The conditions that we are suffering force us to address the real issues that affect the life and well-being of the majority of our people. That is why the call for reparations and justice in dealing with the problems of Black people is so relevant now.” PeopleWellsRealProblemSufferingForceBlackJusticeIssuesConditionsMajorityWell BeingAddressesBlack PeopleRelevantReparations Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.” PeopleMenMillionsSacrificeGroupsLaborOrganizationPaidUnionsEtcMarchWeekendMondayPhilanthropicLabor UnionGreat Sacrifice Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Our [black people's] path is clear: We refuse to be inferior. We want to be exactly what Allah (God) has desired for us to be and we can't be that in their [white people's] house. We either have to take over their house or go and build a house of our own.” PeopleWantHouseBlackWhitePathClearRefuseBlack PeopleInferiors 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
