Louis Farrakhan famous quotes

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Justice

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Character #Black #Causes

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Men #Names #Call Me

America must be burned! America is no good at all.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Islamic #America #Burned

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Fighter #Terrorist #Freedom Fighter

A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#America #Islam #Judgment

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Men #White #Racism

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

#Leadership #Challenges #Moral

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Hope #Humble #Men

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Struggle #People #Use

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Children #Islamic #Fighting

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Brother #Evil #Way

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Black #Way #Agendas

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Hate #Hard Work #Envy

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Order #America #Giving

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Country #Real #Moving

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!
-- Louis Farrakhan

God ordains opposition so that he may prove to the opponents, who are many in number, to the few that God chooses to bless, that if God's hand is with that few, the many cannot oppose and be successful.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Successful #Being Successful #Bless

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Wise #Men #Moments

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#People #Worthy #Our Family

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

#Years

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Thinking #Legacy

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#War #Iraq #America

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#People #Understanding #Muhammad

These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's the wicked Jews, false Jews, that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!
-- Louis Farrakhan

#People #Wicked #Hollywood

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

#Cities #People #Islam

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Betrayal #Goal #Steps

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

#Tired #Thinking #Past

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#America #People #May

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

#Family #Years #Differences

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Brother #Struggle #Differences

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Thinking #Islam #Needs

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#America #Order #Giving

I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Muhammad #Elijah Muhammad #Elijah

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

#Country #Lying #America

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Islamic #White #People

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Brother #Fighting #People

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Country #Struggle #Leader

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Brother #Regret #Loss

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Men #Giving #Victory

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#People #Black #Genocide

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

#Islam #Desire #Doe

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Mother #Men #Two

Murder and lying comes easy for white people.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Lying #White #People

Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Lying #Dirty #Israel

Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Blood #White #Community

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?
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Circles #White #Black

The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Father #Real #Native American

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Giving

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Believe #Islam #Use

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Stupid #Humorous #America

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.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Islamic #Home #Community

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Stupid #Humorous #Believe

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

#Spiritual #Teacher #Leader

My god will wipe this country (America) from the face of the earth.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Country #America #Wipe

I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Community #Jewish Community #Apologizing

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Believe #Exercise #Government

The Jews talk about "never again."... You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!... "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you!
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Mean #Ovens #Jew

I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination, He died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Brother #Fighting #Loss

Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Heart #World #Shapes

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Japan #Hands #Europe

Another method (of depopulation) is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a weapon that can be put in a room where there are Black and White people, and it will kill only the Black and spare the White, because it is a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Black And White #Race #Ebola

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Running #Religious #Expression

There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Father #Stupid #Humorous

Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.
-- Louis Farrakhan

#Attitude #Believe #Israel