Louis Farrakhan Quotes

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

My number one priority is to save the Black man.

I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we have to determine, what do we actually want? We obviously want some social reform, on police brutality and things like that. We also need political changes. But it's more than voting. What are we as black people asking of these politicians?

People are not going to give you a vision, but God can.

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.

We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

If people want safer streets, they want police supported, then they should vote for Donald Trump because that's what he'll do.

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.

God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do.

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.