A biography for Louis Farrakhanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.”
“I don't own Hollywood.”
“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.”
“They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.”
“So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.”
“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.”
“A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.”
“I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.”
“White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.”
“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.”