[But] we need today divine composers, ... We need today someone who can write the score to unite the human family so we can be beautiful as the music that we hear instead of like the ugliness in the world. |
[In the days leading up to the rally, Farrakhan suggested a New Orleans levee may have been deliberately blasted open.] We want to know, ... what happened to the levee? |
[O]n the day after that happened, the beneficiary was George W. Bush. The Senate, the Congress united, and the American people lost through the Patriot Act and the American people lost through a war on the basis of a lie and $340 billion of the taxpayers' money has been spent and there is no end in sight, |
[When asked Thursday on the C-SPAN program] Washington Today ... What this shows is neglect on the part of the federal government because those levees were weak. |
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences. |
A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip. |
Adopt a family, then the government can assist the families to get back on their feet, |
All of the (civil rights) leaders have said that FEMA is insensitive because there are not enough blacks high up in FEMA, and certainly the Red Cross is the same, |
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed. |
Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people. |
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. |
As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders. |
Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us. |
Because he's been vilified and demonized in the press, as I have, it doesn't mean that I should stay away from a man who is doing so much good for so many people, |
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. |