Louis Farrakhan Quotes

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.

In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.

I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

When people wear our Bolivian knits and see who knitted them, they are excited because they know they are supporting this women's cause in Bolivia. And it shows you that we are all connected. It's not a machine making your clothes in a black hole somewhere. There is a human being behind it, and a community there.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.