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Vote: | A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences. |
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Vote: | America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed. |
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Vote: | Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people. |
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Vote: | And I hope that five years and 10 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. |
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Vote: | As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders. |
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Vote: | Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out. |
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Vote: | 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? |
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Vote: | Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. |
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Vote: | I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one. |
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Vote: | I don't think any person who goes through a life-threatening situation or a trial of a great magnitude comes out the same. |
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Vote: | I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe. |
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Vote: | I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired. |
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Vote: | I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. |
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Vote: | I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Our communities don't have peace because they are not safe; they are not secure. |
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Vote: | Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another. |
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Vote: | Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles. |
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Vote: | So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control. |
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Vote: | The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | The enemy knows if he allows that generation to live, America will be the Promised Land for the Black, the Brown and the Red. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. |
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Vote: | They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters. |
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Vote: | They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. |
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Vote: | Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world. |
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Vote: | We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. |
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Vote: | You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. |
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Louis Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933 in Bronx, New York) is the highly controversial leader of the largely African American Nation of Islam.
In 1955, Louis Walcott, the then up-and-coming calypso singer and violinist, first came in contact with the teachings of the Nation of Islam after being inspired by Malcolm X and accepting a friend's invitation to attend the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day address by Elijah Muhammad in Chicago. Walcott accepted Elijah Muhammad's teachings that day and became "Louis X" later to be renamed Louis Farrakhan by Elijah Muhammad. Nation of Islam doctrine explains that because in mathematics the 'X' represents an unknown variable, followers use it to represent their lost, unknown African surnames. The followers accept this 'X' as a symbol of the rejection of their slave names and the absence of a "proper" Muslim name. Eventually, the 'X' is replaced with an Arabic name more descriptive of a person's personality and character.
After joining the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan quickly rose through the ranks to become Minister of the Nation of Islam's Boston Mosque. He was appointed Minister of the influential Harlem Mosque from 1965 to 1975.
After Elijah Muhammad's son, Warith Deen Mohammad, was installed as Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam he disavowed many of his father's beliefs and practices. He brought the group closer to mainstream Islam and renamed the organization as the Muslim American Society.
By 1976 Farrakhan became disillusioned with Warith Deen Mohammad's leadership and quietly walked away from the movement.
In 1978 Farrakhan, with a few supporters, decided to rebuild the Nation of Islam. In 1981, he publicly announced the restoration of the Nation of Islam as an organization that followed Elijah Muhammad's teachings.
On January 12, 1995 Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, was arrested for conspiring to kill Farrakhan. It was later alleged that the FBI had used a paid informant, Michael Fitzpatrick, to set up Shabazz. After Shabazz's arrest, Farrakhan held a press conference in Chicago in which he accused the FBI of attempting to exacerbate division and conflict between the Nation of Islam and the family of Malcolm X. Nearly four months later, on May 1, U.S. government prosecutors dropped their case against Shabazz.
On May 6, 1995, a packed public meeting in Harlem, New York termed A New Beginning featured Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz. Originally organized by community activists as a fund raiser for Qubilah Shabazz's legal defense, the meeting marked the first public rapprochement between Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and the Shabazz family.
On October 16, 1995 Farrakhan convened a broad coalition of black men in what many say was the largest march in American history, the Million Man March.
The calming of Farrakhan's fiery rhetoric in recent years possibly signals a change of direction in the Nation of Islam.
Louis Farrakhan is currently the leader of the Nation of Islam and lives in Chicago, Illinois at the former home of Elijah Muhammad.
Farrakhan, along with Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panther Party, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama and other prominent African-Americans are planning to mark the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March by holding a second march, the Millions More Movement on October 14, 2005 through October 17, 2005, in Washington.
Controversy One of the most controversial quotes attributed to Farrakhan, and which led to him being censured unaminously by the United States Senate, was, "Hitler was a very great man." Farrakhan made this statement in response to a Jewish journalist at the Village Voice referring to him as a "Black Hitler":
In 1998, former Wall Street Journal editor Jude Wanniski attempted to foster dialogue between Farrakhan and those who had labeled him anti-semitic. He arranged for Farrakhan to be interviewed by reporter Jeffrey Goldberg who had written for the Jewish weekly, The Forward and the New York Times. Since the extensive interview was never published in either publication, Wanniski decided to post the transcript on his website in the context of a memo of Senator Joseph Lieberman. The following are links to the interview, parts one, two and three:
:* Interview with Farrakhan Part II
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