Louis Farrakhan Quotes (101 Quotes)

It doesn't matter how long I live, I want everything to be all right for our people,

The government will never do for the poor of this nation until and unless we organize effectively to make government respond to the needs of the poor,

The Millions More Movement is challenging all of us to rise above the things that have kept us divided in the past, by focusing us on the agenda of the Millions More Movement to see how all of us, with all of our varied differences, can come together and direct our energy, not at each other, but at the condition of the reality of the suffering of our people, that we might use all of our skills, gifts and talents to create a better world for ourselves, our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren,

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is too white to represent us and so is the Red Cross, so we're going to demand our place at the table,

We believe that only when you can reconcile with God and get clear with him that he will empower us to unify and change the realities under which we live.

Was the heat from fuel from two airplanes sufficient to compromise the steel in that building (sic) People had said they heard explosions and the buildings came down like we see old buildings in Vegas or in Florida or in other places, implode,

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

You are absolutely correct. The Millions More Movement is for all of us. . . . Please be assured that any member of our community that has gifts, skills, and talents to plan for the redemption of our people will be welcomed at the table.

On the day after that happened, the beneficiary was George W. Bush. The Senate, the Congress united, and the American people lost through the Patriot Act and the American people lost through a war on the basis of a lie and 340 billion of the taxpayers' money has been spent and there is no end in sight,

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Katrina showed us the neglect of the government of the United States of America -- the failure of the state, the local, and the federal government. We charge America with criminal neglect.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost.

We have worked very hard, and now we will wait and see what God will bring. I hope he will bring a great crowd.

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.

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.

Is this a means of getting rid of the poor The black ... Is this a means of ensuring that in the elections there will never again be a black or Creole mayor of that city

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

The image of the black community is horrendous in the world. The image of black men in particular is that of a bestial, maniacal and savage group of persons.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

This atmosphere was manipulated, and unfortunately it caused the death of brother Malcolm. So in that sense, I have been saying all along that my words helped to create this atmosphere, and so did the words of Minister Malcolm.

when the properly selected president was riding to his inauguration, people were saying, 'Hail to the thief.' No matter how much we voted, it didn't mean that much.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

When asked Thursday on the C-SPAN program Washington Today ... What this shows is neglect on the part of the federal government because those levees were weak.

Education today is not what it was, and they're asking you to pay for this, ... Now, college professors, please don't be angry with me, because it's true that education cultivates the human being within and education brings it out to the glory of God.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... . This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.

Our communities don't have peace because they are not safe they are not secure.

Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance,

This time, the day after the march is when the real work begins,

Stan was a sincere and committed and redeemed soul. He became Stan the man, Stan the redeemed man. ... He will be greater in death than he ever was in life.

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

I would hope that forgiveness would come to us for any remarks we made, and forgiveness would come to him and to all of us who, in our zeal, took different positions on a very controversial subject.

In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves,

He had a very focused mission on the black people of America, the black people of the world, because our condition was so horrific from the years of slavery and injustice that we have experienced,

We need to think about a new political party. The Democrats have used us and abused us. They look at the black and the brown and the poor like this is a plantation, and our Democratic leaders are like the house Negro on the plantation of Democratic politics.

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

We can charge the government with criminal neglect of the people of New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi. For five days, the government did not act. Lives were lost.

It makes no difference what we say, but it will make a difference what we do. If we mobilize and organize, we can accomplish that which we desire for the good of ourselves.

This has never happened before in our history, that our whole spectrum of Black thought was represented here on this stage, in front of the Capitol of the United States of America.

But we need today divine composers, ... We need today someone who can write the score to unite the human family so we can be beautiful as the music that we hear instead of like the ugliness in the world.

If someone has a difference with their mom, dad, their uncle, their cousin, their wife, their husband, children, with one another, go to that party and tell them why, give them a chance to acknowledge their wrong give them a chance to confess it openly.

If there is a million, or less, or more, the meaning of this day will be determined by what we do tomorrow to create a movement, a real movement among our people.

Don't you ever think that racism that has poisoned the bloodstream of religion, education, jurisprudence, politics, culture -- that it is not existent in FEMA and the Red Cross