The trade schools closed, so young Black men don't know how to build a house, or put a roof on a house or build cabinets anymore. We used to go to school to learn how to make ourselves useful in the trades. Then a man by the name of Samuel Gompers, a Jewish fellow, brought tradespeople from Eastern Europe, unions started and kept us out. We're having a problem on the national level, on the state level and on the local level because it's telling us that the White man doesn't want you anymore. You have no place in his house anymore except to be a little flunky around the door.
Louis FarrakhanHe who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.
Louis FarrakhanFreedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.
Louis FarrakhanIf 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 FarrakhanAs the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.
Louis FarrakhanI am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And I warn them that these calamities are going to increase now in severity so America might humble herself to that call of God to let the Black man and woman go. It is the time that we should separate to go free and that America should provide us with land and implements that would allow us to build a future for ourselves - for they have proved to be disagreeable to live with in peace.
Louis Farrakhan