Nation Of Islam Quotes:

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

- Louis Farrakhan

topic: Cities, People, Islam, Nation Of Islam

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

- Louis Farrakhan

source: "Can You Hear Me?". Illuminations: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World, www.prx.org. November 15, 2007.

topic: Men, Names, Call Me, Nation Of Islam

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

- Barack Obama

topic: Christian, Christianity, Christian Nation, Christian Truth, Nation Of Islam

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

- Barack Obama

topic: Christian, Christianity, Christian Nation, Christian Truth, Christian Values

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

- Barack Obama

topic: Children, Slavery, Scripture, Leviticus, Abomination

America treasures the relationship we have with our many Muslim friends, and we respect the vibrant faith of Islam which inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality. This year, may Eid also be a time in which we recognize the values of progress, pluralism, and acceptance that bind us together as a Nation and a global community. By working together to advance mutual understanding, we point the way to a brighter future for all.

- George W. Bush

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Inspiration, Pluralism, Mutual Understanding

Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in other fields...[they are]upholding our nation's ideals of liberty and justice in a world at peace.

- George W. Bush

topic: Law, Medicine, Justice, Islam Is Peace, Muslim World

The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'

- Barack Obama

topic: Islam, Males, Female, Nation Of Islam, Christianity And Islam

We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your insistence on man's moral responsibility. We thank the many Muslim nations who stand with us against terror. Nations that are often victims of terror, themselves.

- George W. Bush

topic: Inspiration, Responsibility, Men, Moral Responsibility, Nation Of Islam

Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.324, Ballantine Books

topic: Brother, Hero, Numbers, Nation Of Islam

I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black people across ideological, class lines, denominational religious lines, Christians, as well as Muslims, to build a strong movement for justice and for empowerment.

- Manning Marable

source: Source: historynewsnetwork.org

topic: Christian, Religious, Strong, Envisioning, Nation Of Islam

The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars; some wealthy Black people gave money to make that March a success - and every nickel, every dime, every dollar was accounted for.

- Louis Farrakhan

source: Source: www.finalcall.com

topic: Men, People, Black, Contributors, Nation Of Islam

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

topic: People, Understanding, Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad, Elijah

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

- Louis Farrakhan

topic: Believe, Islam, Use, Discredit, Nation Of Islam

Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.

- Manning Marable

source: Source: historynewsnetwork.org

topic: Organization, Political, Black, Mobilization, United Front

What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.

- Manning Marable

topic: Perspective, Long, Black, Black Nationalism, Nation Of Islam

Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he remained within the Nation of Islam, talking to the converted, he did not represent a fundamental threat to the American government.

- Manning Marable

topic: Kings, Government, Talking, Nation Of Islam

Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem.

- Malcolm X

topic: Differences, Independence, Islam, Working With Others, Nation Of Islam

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

- Ice Cube

source: "Chillin' with Cube". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2000.

topic: Mean, Islam, Causes, Nation Of Islam

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

- Sekou Odinga

topic: Islam, Members, Stills, Nation Of Islam

Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was - it's a story of human transformation, the powerful epiphany, Malcolm's X journey to Mecca, his renunciation of the Nation of Islam's racial separatism, his embrace of universal humanity, of humanism that was articulated through Sunni Islam. Well, that's the story everybody knows.

- Manning Marable

source: "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

topic: Powerful, Journey, People, Nation Of Islam

I was living in New York, so I just rode my motorcycle up to the set [of New Jack City]. So first day of work for me was kind of tough. I get ready to get off my bike, and I'm surrounded by the security guards, who were Louis Farrakhan's Nation Of Islam guys. Who had the double-breasted suits and guns. And this guy goes, "Where you goin'?" And I said, "I'm here to work." And they said, "No you're not." And I said, "Yeah. I'm here to work on the movie." And they said, "No you're not. Get on your bike."

- Judd Nelson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: New York, Gun, Security Guards, They Said, Nation Of Islam

And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured out in the nations of Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Universe. Amen.

- Brother Yun

topic: Jesus, Believe, Buddhism, White Skin, Spirit Of God

Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.

- Manning Marable

topic: Loyalty, Men, Islam, Nation Of Islam, Entourage

There was deep knowledge on the part of members of the Nation of Islam regarding the planning, in sight of the OAAU and the Muslim Mosque Incorporated regarding the events at the Audubon. They knew when they were going to be there, they knew what the schedules were.

- Manning Marable

topic: Sight, Islam, Events, Nation Of Islam

The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

- Manning Marable

source: Source: historynewsnetwork.org

topic: Brother, Islam, February, Nation Of Islam

What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.

- Manning Marable

source: Source: historynewsnetwork.org

topic: Writing, Rights, Islam, Haley, Saturday Evening

[Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what was the consequence of their support for racial separatism that would end up producing a kind of hate, the hate that hate produced, to use the phrase that Mike Wallace used in his 1959 documentary on the Nation of Islam.

- Manning Marable

topic: Hate, White, America, Haley, Nation Of Islam

Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N.O.I., there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N.O.I., the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.

- Manning Marable

source: Source: historynewsnetwork.org

topic: Organization, Islam, Figures, Elijah, Patriarch