Quotes from Louis Farrakhan


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However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.


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.


The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.


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


I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.


So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.


But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.


If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.


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.


But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.


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.


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


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


I don't own Hollywood.


I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.


Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?


Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.


Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.


Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.


Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.