Louis Farrakhan Quotes

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

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.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. If a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated.

Racism is kinda old. For real.

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.