Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan, Sr.is the leader of the religious group Nation of Islam. He served as the minister of major mosques in Boston and Harlem, and was appointed by the longtime NOI leader, Elijah Muhammad, as the National Representative of the Nation of Islam. After Warith Deen Muhammad disbanded the NOI and started the orthodox Islamic group American Society of Muslims, Farrakhan started rebuilding the NOI. In 1981 he revived the name Nation of Islam for his organization, previously known as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 May 1933
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I firmly believe that if the people on those rooftops had blond hair and blue eyes and pale skin, something would have been done in a more timely manner,
Turn to your brother and hug your brother and tell your brother you love him, ... Let's carry this love all the way back to our cities and towns and never let it die, brothers. Never let it die.
When the government wants something, they have to justify what they want by doing something -- whether it injures a hundred, whether it injures a thousand, whether it injures millions,
This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.
We're tired of begging others to do for us what we have the capacity to pool our resources - intellectually and financially - to do for ourselves. We will make demands from our government, but we know those demands will fall on deaf ears unless and until we are mobilized, sensitized and extremely organized.
This time we intend to create a movement,
This time, the day after the march is when the real work begins,
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,
For five days, the government did not act. Lives were lost. We charge America with criminal neglect.
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.
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.
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?
It will become a major holy day among not only our people, but I believe the American people as well.
United we can solve our problems and divided we have nothing.