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
This time we intend to create a movement,
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,
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.
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.
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, the day after the march is when the real work begins,
This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.
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.
Black people all over America and all over the world, there is something wrong with the way we have been trained in a white supremacist, racist environment.
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,
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,
If we don't make the movement inclusive, then we minimize the potential of leveraging the power of black, brown, red and poor, ... can get us the necessary political and economic thrust that we need in order to change the harsh reality of the poor in the United States of America and elsewhere.
Let's go get a family and bring them home,
Let the American people hear both sides of this.