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
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.
We have to organize our people into an effective power base for change,
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,
This time, the day after the march is when the real work begins,
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.
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.
United we can solve our problems and divided we have nothing.
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.
I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.
We have seen an unprecedented number of black leaders come together to speak with one voice, ... This tells us a new day is dawning.
We have seen an unprecedented number of black leaders of organizations come together to speak to Americans with one voice ... this has never happened in our history.
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,