Louis Farrakhan Quotes

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

I need to hear something about how he's going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that's not heard, then we've got to constantly challenge him.

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.

Barack Obama and his followers and his adorers have decided he can bring us all together, that he can reach across aisles, he can reach across oceans. Who knows, he might be able to reach across galaxies, bring people together, to find common ground from the mountaintop, and so, my friends.

You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes it's pretty amazing. Actually, I mentioned a pretty striking case of this in "Crisis and Hope," which was the Caterpillar case in the early 1990s.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it, and [they ask me] if I can give them some advice as to what they should do, or can I tell them what to read or something.

It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

I’ve been to the Mountaintop

Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards of being an activist is that you get to meet all these wonderful people. And there are many unsung heroes. There are so many out there that are good people that are working hard.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water