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us -- we are all that-- but some of us see as an opportunity. ,o the movement begins to die those who leave the movement -- lead the movement take a money a a bribe to stop hurting force that you are coming against. the demand for justice demands integrity. demandsnd for justice selflessness. justice is bigger than all our lives. so, the demand for justice must give us that will to sacrifice our life because the many are
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look around you, brothers and sisters. look at the trees, look at the flowers, look at the bushes. all of it starts with a seed. a simple seed. seeds come in colors, different colors and shapes and sizes. but a seed hides what god has put within it. the cb isunless -- the seedthe seed is placed in the proper environment. all of these lovely living things around us, all of them start from a seed and that seed is planted in the earth.
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it is nourished by water and that magnificent son. -- sun. decedent swells and bursts, sending the roots down. a shoot comes -- up and what was within manifests itself and it is then a glory of god, its creator. started, we all started seed. sperm, a god is not wasteful. may belion sperm released at one time. some even say a billion.
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one can fertilize the egg. god come if you are not wasteful, what happens to the other sperm? what do we do with it? sperm becomes food for the new life. we have a farm and every time we are sowing seeds to raise a crop of beans or corn or whatever birdstion we desire, the sense that seeds are being sown. rds collect over the land. if this unit does not go deep
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-- get the seed does not go deep enough, the bird flies down and the seeds become food. nothing.s but you are a seed. i am a seed. inhave not yet been placed the proper spiritual or physical environments that would cause the seed it to swell and burst and let what is within come out so we can say i am a part of the glory of god. elijah mohammed one in the muslim program to be brought before this house.
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i don't know anybody in the house i could trust. program.his so, i came to bring it myself. as his student. now, i want you to think about what i'm about to say. been appearings on the back page of mohammed speaks and the final call since 1961, the muslim program. i do want to hear that, i'm not a muslim. ok. what are you? if i ask you to tell me your nationality, you point to some spot on the earth that you think defines who you are.
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it is limited. i'm from georgia. good for you. i'm from mississippi, i'm from alabama. i'm from new york. right, right. but that does not defined who you are. i'm from jamaica, men the caribbean. i'm from africa, ghana. that don't define you. you are defined by the nature in which you were created. nature is the same as the nature of god, no landmass can define you. says sent your face for religion being upright
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llah inure made by a which he has created man and there is no offering -- a dog is a dog. not because you call him a terrier or a great dane. the names of different species of dogs. the dog is defined by the nature of his creation. i don't care whether it is a or a shepherd or pitbull. if it is a male, whenever it a hydrant, it will lift its leg. nobody taught it that.
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it's what it will do. nature,nderstand your you will understand the unlimited possibilities of the human being. created no human being without depositing in that human being a gift that can be expressed to an excellent degree. that is the nature of god. that is not an excellent tree. excellent tree. it is excellent. it is not an unexcellent bird. it is a bird. nt, it is the sun, the moon, the stars.
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excellent creations from an excellent creator. excellentd creation from an excellent creator but you have to know your self and your relationship to god in order to extract what is within and bring it out to the glory of god. that worklack people in this house, listen carefully to what i'm about to say. a lot of black people who have mastered their particular sport or their particular discipline, they feel excellent. you know? they walk with a certain heaviness and certain private, when they come in the room, some of them suck up the atmosphere.
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look, there is so and so. as if so and so is greater than you, so and so. only great in your eyes because you have not open your eyes to the greatness of yourself. so, look, brothers and sisters. god is part off the thing that makes us so dissatisfied with government. something thator the government can't give you. you are born to be free.
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the muslim program says we want freedom. full and complete freedom. that is not just what muslims want. that is what every human being wants. i will you do fine a full freedom -- define a full freedom and complete freedom? and i'm 50 years , haved i'm still a seed never been planted in the right environment to develop myself, then i don't have freedom. free and fully
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developed, then i have attained a full and complete freedom. give you that? come on. well, you don't have it. so, what are we petitioning this for? it cannot give you what is not in their nature to give you. demandjust making a because it is right to do it but we know they can't do it why can'. why can't they? let me show you why. the other day, for the first time i said let me go out and
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visit all the monuments that are mall wherel -- this we the people will be standing. i tried to get into the jefferson memorial. i sit there looking at a 19 foot statue of a great american. mall is hallowed ground for us, but it is also sacred ground for those who love america. jefferson was one of the most brilliant of the founding fathers of this country. words -- i will
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out.endence that they took because he was dealing with king man because hee trafficked in black bodies, bringing them to america. i want you to read his words. because thomas jefferson knew that if the slaves were not set day, what king george did by bringing us into slavery would cause the slaves to rise and fight against those holding is an slavery. we have come to that point now. did you hear me?
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crust that begins to come down -- thet the rock many molten rock beneath. class you in the middle crying out. because the middle class is becoming the new poor. that is the upper crust coming down to meet the magma below. it is bubbling now. and you seeming up dust coming up from the sleeping volcano. that has been asleep so long, you play around it like it doesn't have power to kill you. you play with the lives of poor
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people, indigenous people, black people, women. you play with the lives of soldiers who have given their lives on a foreign battlefield only to come home and be rejected and die while they are waiting for treatment. why are you saying this in front of the capital, brother loui farrakhan? i want to show the world hypocritical america that is telling everyone that they are inlating human rights while america, there is all this dissatisfaction. i think, mr. president, we ought
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to be quiet. telling china you to straighten out your human rights violations. going down to cuba, we will have relations with you, but your -- as ifhts violations you don't have no problem in america. ,e are trying to show the world these are problems here. these problems demand resolution. america don't have the heart to do it. thomas jefferson gave some brilliant remarks about freedom.
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america when for he reflected that god is just and his justice would not sleep forever. thomas jefferson with his others fashioned the seal of this nation. reflected theseal wrath of god. above.ght from and fell on me below. would comeath of god down on america is america would .ot free the slaves -- if america will not free the slaves.
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he knew it should be done. said weas jefferson need to let the slaves go. them a goodive sendoff. land, weo give them need to give them machinery. we need to give them seeds to plant crops. we need to teach them the -- warfarewhere fair that they would be able to defend the land they would be given. this is thomas jefferson. but he could not force it. --re are good why people good why people who want to see you free but the politics of the situation will not allow it to happen. -- good white people.
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i don't care nothing about what the politicians are saying. all should have some freedom." like the pope who came so andtifully a few weeks ago i listened to him, i took a few days rest from the tour because andcame sick with pneumonia i went away for 10 days. during that 10 days, his holiness was here and i watched him every day until his plane left. beingght about this human who has captured the world. him inn i thought about
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cuador and bolivia, three countries in south america , and the pope asked them to forgive the church. did you hear that, brothers and sisters? now, he did not say forgive me. church that was killing the indigenous people really was not connected to them. they were connected to a cross that was given to constantine in a vision. in latin, under the cross it , with this sign, we
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conquer. the cross and christianity at that time was not the real teaching of jesus christ. it was a philosophy, and ideology that formed white supremacy. will you forgive us? , i did not hear the answer then. the people of ecuador and , we don'tnd bolivia hear their answer. but in charleston, after nine of
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you say jesus -- don't put your cowardice on jesus. sure, he said love your enemy. he was not talking about loving satan. oh, wait now. scriptures where jesus said we all ought to let satan. -- love satan. the devil. see, the devil was wicked from the beginning. he was not somebody that committed a sin and did a wrong but you might forgive. but, look at you black people. mother.t forgive your
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some of you don't even talk to your father. nobody you don't talk to that does you wrong, but you will come with the children of the enemy on your arm. that forgives hitler. and you say they are the people of god. and they don't have no forgiveness in them. you really need to get acquainted with jesus. the pope is not a foolish man. but, he made a saint out of
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somebody that the native people don't see any sainthood in. taking the grand wizard of the ku klux klan and be edifying him and making him a saint. what about all the people that you killed? what about all the evil you have done? should we forgive? says it liken this. , gotay forget, but i talking, will never forget. the god i'm about to talk to you is on scene today.
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thomas jefferson could not deliver. i went to the lincoln statue. while i was in there, they had dr. king speaking. what is dr. king doing speaking in the lincoln memorial? listened. and then i reflected on abraham lincoln's words. it's written there for the people to see. if i can preserve the all in slavery, i will do it. did you hear me?
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i could preserve the by letting half the slaves go free and keeping the others enslaved, i would do that. the preservation of the union. not freeing you. and that's why you're still , we shall overcome. you've been tricked. you've been had. .ou've been took you've been bamboozled. ,n the words of brother malcolm we have been deceived. in his debates
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, there will always and inferior. man,, as much as any white wants the superior position assigned to the white race. he knew you were the problem. he said, let me see if i can get rid of it. he calls the negroes to the white house. when you call a negro, not a negro who but call a withnding and scratching his head bent low talking to the boss man, he said, will you
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separated?eaccept to be i will give you land in africa. need,l give you what you you know. but you will be on your own. but we will help you. us.the negro said not no. he backed off because the negroes did not want to he could not sell it to white folks who might have still wanted our presence as what we are. people play with us. play in thenderful end of a mighty people -- hand
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i know what i'm talking about. you were johnny-come-lately. it first started as a $64 question. then it went to $64,000. that's when you came in. how are you going to talk to the old man? [laughter] : 64 years of hidden history is what turned from an african black , having eyes negro but cannot see, years cannot
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hear, hungrs cannot rs cannoteak -- ea hear, tongue cannot speak. our mother is gone, our father is gone, you could not hear you are father or mother praying. you woke up with white folks names on you. white people are very smart. they stamp you with themselves so they can recognize you. when you are stealing something -- i don't know whether you do anything like that -- when you are stealing something in the mall and you get to a certain point, the
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buzzer rings. you cannot get out the store until what is in your position -- possession is checked. white folks been knowing that you were their property. that's why they name you. when you go for your passport, what is your name, my name is larry wilson. lewis green. that's one of them. because you are named after your former slave master. you cannot be free walking
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around in the name of your former owner. active freedom is to take your name back take a name. that is an african name. people the name of your or an islamic name. why should you be named after god who is your creator -- shouldn't you be named after god who is your creator? i will go to them and they will say you have to go to court. o court not go to n to name me. i'm not going to know court to give you back your name. you what them tell you've got to do. show them your independence and your knowledge.
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i am a free man. that is not my name, that is your name. take it back. i'm giving it to you. say't you hear my brother the dominican republic was enslaved by the spaniards? here,y mexican family what is your name? my name is gonzales. many ms. ramirez. -- my name is ramirez. i speak spanish. and you look at your haitian brother, francois. where did he get that name? he is speaking french. french]g
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he's different, he's french. no, he is a conquered black man with a white man's language and the white man's name. believe it or not, with a white man's religion. let me tell you something about jesus and the white man's religion. see, if you really had the religion of jesus, we would not even be here talking to you. you would be free right now. if you really had the religion of jesus. i were baptized into that which made us think that jesus was caucasian.
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them government cheese. feed them the real gospel of jesus christ. that's why they don't want me to stop. they are being fed. look, i don't want to miss my point. prophesies to be in america 400 years. let's deal with that. go home, get your bibles. "of genesis. -- open to the book of genesis, 15 chapter. the 14, 15, 16 versus. it reads like this. abraham, your seed
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will be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. them andshall serve they shall be afflicted 400 years. who do you think that is talking about? you. thatre the only people have been under a strange man in a strange land for 400 years. look at what the scripture says. time, i will come. judge that nation
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that they shall serve. we are now living in the day of judgment. to hurtry, i don't like , white or black, yellow, butred or america now has entered the time of divine judgment. meant you to listen to because when i finish today, you will see and hear things that you've never seen or heard before. i will tell you what is coming. by the guidance of god.
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with our indigenous brothers. and sisters. we paid a price. immigrant.are an bless your heart. when you got here, the streets were paved with gold for you. ofm the sweat and blood years that worked for 310 for no pay. and another 150 years as a free slave, never getting what we are worth. america is under divine judgment. look at the scripture in the book of revelations.
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angry.ions are look around the world. all the nations are upset. all of them. the, the scriptures said y wrath will come. nobody cares that the nations are angry. you have to worry about the wrath of god that has come. about what isow going to happen? you all with your tender hearts, you never understood what justice is.
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justice for pharaoh is not the same as the justice for the children of israel. oppressed is not the same as justice for the oppressor. is for the oppressed. said god is not marked -- oh, my god.n that is a horror story for somebody. behold before the great day of the lord, i will send you elijah the prophet.
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what is he going to do? he is going to turn the hearts of the children, you, back to your father. and your father's heart back to you, lest the earth be smitten with a curse. this is a sad day. it is a great day, but a dreadful day. righteous. for the it is dreadful for the wicked. knew it wasrson coming, try to beat it. abraham lincoln knew it was coming tried to beat it. king's monument.
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i have learned to love my because if you would go and study the speeches that dr. made in the last two years of his life, you will know that dr. king was not a dreamer. dr. king had awakened from that dream and said "my dream has turned to a nightmare." these are the words of dr. king. before he was assassinated, i want you to see what dr. king was saying a few days before. oh, my brother, dr. king. -- iarted talking about
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want to quote him right. this is too important. what dr. king said, i want to get the link which right. -- language right. how dr. king evolved, we will evolve with him. he was not a dreamer. he was a great revolutionary brother,like his brother malcolm. ofle i am on the subject brother malcolm, there's a group
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who thinkout here farrakhan has something to do with the murder of brother malcolm. let's deal with it. i want to ask you a question. do you know any murderer? that white folk don't like. on. they could pin a crime and he is still speaking up here with his foot deep in their backside. [applause] : from this sacred fbie, we ask that the
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files onpen up all the brother malcolm x. dact a damn thing and let the people see what really happened to brother malcolm. [applause] dr. farrakhan: they are killing me with you. through media and some who claim to know malcolm in love malcolm. if i could get close to you, i would show you that you don't love him as much as you say. -- someou all
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muslims were involved. who was the man giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to get shot -- when he got shot? it was an agent from the police department undercover. the white man wanted malcolm debt. -- dead. naturally, we were angry with brother because he spoke against his teacher and his teacher's personal life. reverend, black leader, let's talk a little bit.
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nation. you talk about passing the torch, you've got to be careful that there is light on the stick you have in your hand. if you are passing the same youess that you've got, have fallen in the ditch and the one that you give the torch to is falling in the ditch right after you. hell no. you have to have wisdom to lead our people today out of the clutches of a deceitful, satanic mind. not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places.
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these are the children from elijah mohammed's wives. el. the mother of ishma madea and akhmed. known alltual scholar over the world. mohammed.eta [applause] where are the grandchildren? if it were not for elijah mohammed's marriages, i would not have these illustrious helpers. none of the first family helped
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me. in the rebuilding of their father's work. these that he has, from the ares who loved him committed to this cause of the liberation of our people all over the world. mexicoted these in because he wanted the union of the black and the brown. same. done the [applause] players, let me get in a little word to the players. [laughter]
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lgbtq family,y let me tell you something. those of us who are students of elijah mohammed, we are in love with our people. yourn't ask you what sexual preference is. we love you. we are not your judges. we want to work together to free our people completely. to my family, this is my family, you will never find me, or us, condemning you for what has become of us in our sojourn. ones who will point
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to a gay brother or sister are fornicators, adulterers, freaks and everything else. who of us can throw a stone at the next one? none of us. the greatest example of that is jesus himself. he said that he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill what was written in the law. they brought him a woman found in adultery. i am coming to the end. jesus, we found her in adultery. i don't understand how you can find a woman in adultery and she can buy herself -- and she
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came by herself. when you figure that one out, let me know. after jesus, who was supposed to death, her stoning to according to the law of moses, the people got their stones in their hands. they were ready. and jesus knelt down and wrote in the sand. the one of you that is without cast the first stone. they held their stones and dropped them by their side, because they were not clean enough to stone a woman found in adultery.
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imam, the great grandson of the honorable elijah mohammed, and he is that you mom of the nation of -- he is the imam of the nation of islam. today, i don't want you to move yet, because this is instruction time. divine judgment as we speak. us 50 tohammed taught 60 years ago what we were going to face. be fourthere would great judgments. unusual rain. unusual snow.
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earthquakes. hail. and that he would use the forces of nature against america. what you see going on in charleston and in south carolina, very serious. they have never seen rain like that at all. how? why? .hat is divine judgment the i leave you today calamities are going to get stronger because god once america to let us go. not integrate us, let us go and
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give us a good sendoff. those of you who are scripturally sound, mosys was not an integrationist. neither are we. clear. e america has no future for you or for me. cannot make a future for herself, much less a future for us. the scripture says, come out of her, my people. we will have to come out. but don't worry. god says that he takes the kingdom from whom he pleases and he gives it to whom he pleases. chance toou have a
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stop the judgment or delay it. did you hear what i just said? can be delayed but it is a very narrow window of opportunity i close with this before instruction, brothers and sisters. they came to jesus and they asked him when is the end coming ? this, you cank at look and the sky and sea by the redness of the sky, you can discern that it will be a good day. but you cannot read the signs. said this wicked and
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adulterous compilation seekteth after a sign, but no sign shall be given to you except the sign of jonah, as jonah was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, so shall the son of man be in the h of heart of the earth. this scriptural scientist, i want you to study, who is the son of man? he is a man from a man. don't you be looking for no spook. don'tlievers in spooks understand the law of cause and effect. that is why it your seats which have not shown forth the glory show your food for the
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bloodsuckers of the poor. 85% of the people in every poverty.e in have0% of the people knowledge but will not share it with the poor. poor, inive off the america. people don't understand the law of cause and effect. them thatis 10% among do understand. and they for the rich work against the poor and the
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poor are poisoned animal eaters. they eat hog flesh. sounding their mental powers and robbing them of their beauty, appearance, they don't know the law of cause and effect. they believe that all that you see is happening from a mystery god. 10% that no and they are sucking the blood of the poor. , we haveack community 85% that are in bad shape. who rob the 10% 85%. that take our money
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but will not fight for us. everything is a plea bargain. that want a third of the money from those killed but will not fight for justice. , bad pharmacies, bad people. that hustle their brothers and forers, so when i asked fearless men, god stopped me short. 10,000 fearless men. when we put it on the facebook page, white folks it, he wants -- white folks said, he wants
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10,000 to start killing my people. do i sound crazy to you? -- white would a they say that unless they think they deserve the justice of god? day, they cut my words to say, they deserve to die. i didn't say that. i said that is what you must be 10,000g when i say fearless and all you can see is a bunch of black people killing like people. i didn't say that. said, we haveer i to go into our community because fronts tos on two
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stop the killing of us from police and wickedness. i needed 10,000 fearless. men that we can train because we have to stand between the guns. you know what? when we go in our community, to clean it up, guess who we are going to run into? we are going to run into rogue people, wicked black suck theogether to blood of the poor.
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it means we have to be strong enough to stop the killing. the moment we try to stop it, those who benefit from it will come against us. so, we have to sit with the police and say we are going to expose your rogue policeman. you know where they are? they are in the black community. you know why they are there? i don't want said, to do police work in the white community, i want to do police work in the black community because that is where the fun is. that is darren wilson. what is fun about your work in the black community, rogue police? you profit from the drugs going on. you profit from the
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prostitution. you profit from the drug trade. you do. it onll us and blame another game. that is the fun. your days of having fun on our suffering is about to come to an end. i need 10,000 fearless black men. [applause] we have to clean up our community and there is no way that we can make a good people and leave them under the educational system of white supremacy. over theo take educational system. the education that you are
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receiving has not made you good people or better people, it made you a more willing tool of slaves for your oppressor. orderystem has to go in for black people to be set free. all educators, i am calling on you. we have to take over. brilliant educators. we don't need to accept this poison doctrine of white supremacy any longer. defense. ministry of we need a ministry of justice. we have to resolve our own conflicts spilling our affairs in the presence of those who make merchandise and laugh at us and make mockery of us. judges.lawyers, we have we can solve our own problem in
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the inner city with justice. is --st thing i will say preachers. you are the most important. dr. martin luther said,he third and he farrakhan, what can we do to turn this around? we havebrother martin, to take your father's philosophy of nonviolence and redirect it to black people. working all this love to clearur up the hate in the hearts of
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what people, 50 years after you are still the same. turn your attention to yourself. come home and teach love for one another. neighbor, of the teach us to forgive each other for our acts of evil done under the oppressor's minds that he put in us. i would like to have 10,000 fearless women. [applause] i wish that i could show you the women in the nation, these are warriors.
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these sisters would somebody say, hey baby. they don't talk like that to our women. if they do, is a terrible mistake. [laughter] [applause] when women are clothed, they earn respect. the beauty of your form is for your husband. if you don't have a husband, keep it covered. the one that you get as a will be the dog that saw what he wanted, and it wasn't you. it was the beauty of your form. them beautiful hips. those succulent lips. lord, have mercy.
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sisters, all of them, they are very highly intelligent. you can't come to them with weak conversation. they see right through you. cook, they areo food scientists. youme tell you, sisters, know that you are beautiful. a woman who is beautiful and can't cook, is a killer in the kitchen. wise't think you would be marrying a killer, and she kills you in the kitchen with a bunch of greasy food. keep sisters know how to themselves alive, their families alive, their children alive. thank you, sisters. that was really nice.
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where are the young men? bring me the young soldiers. i hope you are not slow, cleanliness in and out right down to the modern times. they are all on post? ok. but we have some fine young men that we are training. i am 82, i don't know how long i've got, but i'm not worried. torch lit witha the wisdom of god that i am giving to every young person who will listen. when i leave, i want to leave
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somebody that will give the rollshell until justice down like a river, and righteousness like a mighty stream. did you know that we spend almost half of the money that we take in, in a year, during christmas? $1.1 trillion-$1.3 trillion. 400 billion of it is spent during the holidays. dr. king wanted us to redistribute the pay. suppose that we decided, ok, this christmas we are kicking
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santa to the curb. you are notas, going to lie to your children, telling them that this caucasian from the north pole brought them this gift. you are going to tell them the truth. i've brought you the gift, me and your daddy. we hustled. but not this christmas. this christmas, we are going to sit around the table and we are going to bring christ back to a day that was supposed to honor him. down put theottle pu thtt the beer
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down, and get around your table with clean food and teach about jesus. forgiveness, and reconcile your differences within the family. this will be the best christmas that we have had in a long time. put $400 billion and you it in your pocket, then have a little money to invest and what we want to do is buy up as much land -- we are asking the government for 100 million acres, as a start. that is about the size of california. can provide a healthy meal table,lk, on the
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, if we poolbread our resources. look at these figures. people,about 30 million near 40 eating a slice of bread per meal, 90 million slices of billion slices32 of bread per year. how much land must we have under wheat cultivation to give our people our daily bread? elijah mohammed said, moved to milk. how much land west we have, how have, how muchwe
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grazing must we have to give a glass of milk per day. 40 million black people having three slices of wheat would 1,000,200 and 22,000 acres of land -- 1,222,000 acres of land growing wheat. to give milk every day to 40 million people requires the 7.5 billion pounds of milk. 389,000 acres of grazing land.
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soup,vide soup, bean million acres of land under navy being cultivation. all of these figures with just re milk,ur milk -- put beans, he saidd we could live 140 years. off of that simple food. if you want to lengthen the days of your life, you have to eat better, and you won't eat better if you allow your enemy to feed you. we will have to feed ourselves by buying as much land as we can. you,ht, as i leave
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tomorrow morning, i would like to see the scholars. at the jw marriott, we have to talk about what we are going to do after today. like engineers of every pilots,vigators, farmers. i want college presidents, especially the black colleges, you have to know that you are not a plantation to produce more dumb negroes with degrees. you have to make the colleges teach the things that will make young people builders instead of beggars. tomorrow at the jw marriott, 11:00.
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we want to talk a lot what is next. god, you haveh made me so happy today just to look into your beautiful faces. [applause] here, you, when you leave to go home to your wives and your families. before you leave, i want you to greet the people around you, hug the m and tell them, i love you. embrace your native indigenous people and tell them, we love you. our mexican families, embrace them and tell them you love them. this day day forward, of a demand for justice will never end until justice is ours.
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today is the beginning of that movement that will never end. all local organizing s, you have to stay focused and keep working. it's not over, it has just begun. thank you for listening. on, brothers and sisters, let's put our hands together for the minister louis farrakhan, justice. god for louis farrakhan and the ministry that he gave. let's not break apart before we pray, because the family that prays together stays together. what we want to do, everybody has a cell phone, let me see all of your smartphones and your cell phones. put them up.
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"unity" let's keep the movement going and continue to organize thectively so we can reform justice to force those to give us the justice that we seek. it is in our unity, it is in our love of one another. your personal copy of today's message between third and 6th street on jefferson and on maryland for your personal copy of today's dvd. you who wish to join your native american families, you will have a prayer service, please join our native american families for prayer.
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[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] rally on the national mall marking the 20th anniversary of the million man march will re-air tonight on c-span, starting at 8:35 p.m. et, and it is available anytime on our website at c-span.org. we move on with our program schedule.
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prominent leaders collect -- connected to the black lives matter movement recently talked about their cause and part of a conference hosted by the state innovation exchange and the organization, american family voices. hello everyone. if you can please take your seats, will start the next panel. seats,take your everyone. thank you. yesterday, and throughout the day today, we have been receiving a lot of data, a lot of numbers. how to think about issues, facts, figures. what is also important, and this
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came up in the last conversation and has been a theme running to the conference, is that we need to ground ourselves in people. this is what this panel is about. grounding ourselves in a movement, in people, in a conversation about racism, and the decisions that leaders and others in this country have made that impact black communities. when we talk about black communities, we are talking about all communities. all of the facts and figures that we hear are amplified. unemployment, mass incarceration, health care, pay equity, police misconduct. they affect black communities different than other communities which have had very serious, broad, life or death consequences. this is not by coincidence. race is something that we as a country have not fully dealt with.
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it is always something we have to talk about, learn or have another conversation about. fortunately, there is a new movement. it is important to talk about how you can support the movement in communities across the country. we have an incredible panel here to do that. it is my hope that all of you will be inspired to connect with leaders in your state, to forge a path forward. i am committing six and the resources we can bear to support the movement in the coming years. olivet starts now. let -- all of that starts now. let me turn it over to dorian warren. you might recognize dorian from
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," and hisnerding out frequent contributions to the network. i think you are getting back to do the show tomorrow morning. he is a professor, a noted authoer, and has an incredible ability to articulate issues of economics and politics into something that is simple and adjustable -- and digestible. i cannot think of a better person to be monitoring -- -moderating this panel. please give him a good welcome. [applause] mr. warren: good afternoon, everyone. it has been a little bit over a year now since the death of michael brown in ferguson,
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missouri, sparked nationwide protests and intensified tension between police and people of color, in particular black committees. -- death of michael bring brown came after people were already grappling with the death of an unarmed teen shot and killed by an armed watchman two years ago, trayvon martin. the group i am a part of had just begun paying attention to the treatment of law enforcement toward black citizens. thankfully, movements like black lives matter, or the movement for black lives has erupted and helped to bring about the stories of those that would have otherwise been without a voice. aided by, this is cameras on all of our phones that we can now use. in some ways, these devices are
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democratizing the media and allowing us to bring greater attention to the lives and taken lives of black americans. you probably know, earlier this year on march 4, the department of justice released two long-awaited reports on what happened in ferguson, missouri. one of those reports found that officer darren wilson's actions were not unreasonable according to police protocol. however, the other report revealed the ferguson police department's long-standing culture of institutional racism. for those of us who study this and who have been active in police accountability, in taking on racial disparities and bias in policing, none of these came as a surprise. action they sparked more and you will hear about the activities of these several campaigns represented here in a few moments.
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nick asked me to provide a little historical context of how we got here. the one example that i can think of to try to frame this black livesround matter and policing in black communities, state violence. the one image that came to my mind is the image of emmett till from 1954. 1955. ways, as books have been written, it is one of the key sparks of the civil rights movement. before montgomery that got young people into the movement. toosame can be said of way many names to say, whether it is trayvon martin, mike brown, eric garner -- we could go on and on, sandra bland. we could go on and on. we will hear from our panel
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white they say black lives matter -- why they say, black lives matter. i like to say environmentalists who say we should save the rain forest, no one criticizes them for not talking about other forests. [laughter] [applause] we will hear why black lives matter, what this movement is about, what are the policy demands, and what role you can play in bringing about greater police accountability and racial justice for black americans and all americans. in many ways, from the founding of this country, black americans have been the miner's canary of american democracy. if you want to test the nature of our democracy, you can just look at the plight of black americans. also ofay, sister,
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native americans. if you look at the plight of the most marginalized, that gives you a sense of the health of our democracy. we will hear first from dante as the news named leader of social justice and a couple weeks ago as the root 100 fantastic of emerging leaders doing amazing work in this country. dante is executive director of the million hoodies for justice which is an organization of artists and young people working to end mass criminalization and gun violence in this country. led severalante other organizations. you might have seen him on "the msnbc", on cnn.
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he is also on the board of the andrew goodman foundation. he is an opportunity agenda communications institute fellow. please join me in welcoming dante berry. [applause] you all for having us here. -- the millionul hoodies as you would assume emerged in response to the murder of trayvon martin in 2012. we emerged because of the --ia's failure to adequately fundamental problem is
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masculinization -- criminalization. 1980's, theom the movement has had a strong conversation about rights and order, typically to keep black communities in their place. we have seen this in media at whether it is cops or online order. how there is always -- whether it is cops or law and order, there is always a criminal black person. things, is cored to two we build human rights leaders working to and mass criminalization and gun violence and we transform the narrative of anti-blackness in the media. looking how it is pervasive in all of our communities, laws, policies and cultures and how we look at this world. when we say that all black lives
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say that when all black lives matter, all lives will matter, too. we want to make sure that is also communicated. when we look at anti-blackness, it is the root of most of our issues. i want to. quickly touch on a couple things. to feel and beht safe in this country? black communities no longer feel safe. black communities don't feel safe with police. black communities don't feel safe within their own communities. black communities don't feel safe weather is a white vigilante coming to a church. black people don't feel safe. when we think about what safety looks like, i want it to close your eyes and think about what makes you feel safe. who are you with, where are you at, what does it sound like, what does it feel like?
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more often than not the first thing that comes to your mind will be a home. a beach with your family. you will feel really comfortable. needless to say, police presence and security cameras are not the first thing that comes to your mind. says that police presence and security cameras are what makes us feel safe. theeed to engage in conversation about what actually makes us feel safe and who has a right to feel safe. black communities and black people will feel safe when committees are not trying to survive but thrive. to not have the ability feel politically isolated and marginalized in our own system. when we have the resources to reinvest in our communities as well. folks that are working on a number of campaigns, whether that is prison -- private prison divestment,
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reinvesting resources from police and new york city. looking how the budget in new york city spent over $100,000 for 1300 new cops and how those resources could be better spent in communities that are poor and marginalized. gun divestment. looking at how they proliferation of guns is influencing how communities are being attacked. this conversation around divestment and reinvestment is not new. happeningen some work around prop 47 of thinking how we can reconfigure the priorities around budgets, when budgets that are being spent on over policing communities, over incarcerating communities, budgets that are being used to impact on violence. what if they were better redirected? the communities that are suffering through the
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installation of violence. what if we are able to solve the poverty question in a real way? our work is really geared toward that. close, but kind of black lives will matter when black communities thrive. [applause] >> thank you, dante. next we will hear from marbury, who is a policy advocate for the center for democracy. she specializes in affordable housing and racial justice. she joins us as a feral justice ferrelland her -- justice fellow. her work focuses on families affected by aggressive policing --in an attempt to develop meaningful bottom up policy
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