Louis Farrakhan's Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

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

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.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.