Elijah Muhammad Quotes

• I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Muhammad, Elijah, I Can

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• Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Understanding, Muhammad

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• 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.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mother, Men, Two

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• I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Trying, Blind

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Black, Movement

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• Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X

  Malcolm X

  Dirty, Glasses, Water

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• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  Malcolm X

  Law, White, America

  "Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 4, 2012.

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in himself. He - he has been brainwashed by the educational system that exists here in America to the point where he feels he was a savage in the jungle when he was - before he was brought here. And this destroys his morale.

  Malcolm X

  Educational, Numbers, America

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• The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

  Malcolm X

  Uplifting, Teaching, White

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.

  Malcolm X

  Teaching, Men, White Man

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• There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be linked to the struggle of our people in every part of the earth. Every leader that was international in scope and in reach became the target of the government - Paul Robeson, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Kwame Ture and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Any Black leader who would try to connect us to our brothers and sisters in Africa and Asia were seen as a threat and became a target.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Kings, Struggle

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

  Muhammad Ali

  White, Devil, Get Up

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Egypt, Chinese

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

  Muhammad Ali

  America, Muhammad, Accepting

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.

  Muhammad Ali

  Names, Dumb, Islam

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Believe, Leader, Alive

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

  Malcolm X

  Devil, Muhammad, Honorable

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• America's time, unfortunately, for judgment has come. In fact, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us it's not just the judgment of America, but it's a judgment of the world that has been affected by the Shaitan, or "Satan" of America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Taught Us, America, World

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Land

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Community

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Teaching

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, Odds

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Organization

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Race, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Race, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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