this is all about civil rights, but this is about human rights. this is about as knowing that we are not 3/5 of a human, that we have feelings and family, too, and that we will not continue to stand by and not say anything anymore. that we will speak up and speak out. that god is watching what is going on and i think the families that are standing here before me that do not hold your head down and think your child's life has been lost in vain. your child was not the person that shot and killed someone else. your child was murdered. that person's mother needs to hold their heads down.

because they birthed a murderer. stand up for who you are. stand up for what has happened and continue to speak out. god bless you all. [applause] >> it is amazing to note that 20 years ago, when it was that we assembled on the same place, a time that america had to come to a screeching halt because they were not used to seeing the picture of strong, was billion black men standing -- resilient black men standing in allegiance. give an overwhelming applause to every black man around you for their strength and resilience. [applause] my dear friends, we would be

longer along if we had brought the system what this and i am thankful for sisters are standing with the brothers today. we make noise for the beautiful black women who are here standing? [applause] 20 years ago when we assembled, we were not asking washington for anything. we were coming for atonement for ourselves, taking personal spots ability. note signed contract, but there was a covenant for men who had the conscience. immediately, the enemy knew he was in trouble because there was power and unity. there was nothing more dangerous than a formally suppressed demand who had come -- formally oppressed man who had come to his own mind. when you show you how to apply, adversarial forces show their

hand. in the last 20 years, the enemy was nervous the cousin but we did 20 years ago. for the last -- nervous because of but we did 20 years ago. over the last 20 years, they have robbed inner cities of fresh vegetation. over the last 20 years, they have been put them in private -- they have funded private institutions but have not funded private education. they have been trying to criminalize the young black youth. they try to hide the truth in the textbooks. for 20 years, since we tried to rock the boat, they have been trying to hide the boat. it is important that we come to washington, d c, because behind me you see the are working on the roof but we came to work on the foundation. something is wrong with america, and we came to fix it.

appearing almost as a move of god as we begin to converge in baltimore and cleveland. on this very week, the department of justice made up in their mind that they did something wrong. they over sentence, and in number sentencing, they made up their minds they will release 6000 prisoners from the department of correction. i want to did an amazing way, for the strength of our brothers and sisters who are the prisoners of the war on drugs, would you give god praise for those who are incarcerated? and i want you to shout for those who are reentering into society. [applause] from october 30 to november 2, the largest number of x offenders are walking out of prison. this is the very first time that we will see triple down work in

our favor because when they walk out, they are walking out and we are walking out everywhere. we are walking out of those who do payday loans, we are walking out of banks that will give us [indiscernible] but will not give us alone to start a business. we are walking out of establishments that do not give us the dignity that we deserve. we are walking out the playing politics, of collective people who look like us but do not think like us. we want to get a warning to every person who was running for president -- if you cannot say black lives matter, you are not qualified to run the united states of america. there is an army of one million people and we must be registered to vote. we must have an economic entity, and we must have a principle. we did not come as beggars, we came as partners because if it

were not for black people, there would be no america. i came to speak the name of the man that matters. his name is jesus christ and he was wounded transgressions, rise up, black people, accomplish what you will. it is our time now. this is not an event, it is a movement. we have got to do it. come on, black people, make some noise. black empowered time. ♪ [applause] >> give it up again. one last time, when we talk about justice or else, the people that i am bringing makeup the courthouse. -- make up the or else. they come from groups like lack lives matter, hands up united in

ferguson, missouri, the activists that handle the business on the street every day. let me have you -- carmen perez, the executive director of the gathering for justice, and tori russell of hands up united in ferguson, missouri. >> black lives matter here. >> black lives, they matter here. >> black lies, they matter here. -- black lives, they matter here. assalamu alaikum. my name is selena abdullah, i am an organizer for black lives matter. i want to thank minister louis farrakhan for having us and all the struggle he has them for the liberation of black people.

i am honored to be among those of you who have struggled for a decade. i am honored to be a miss those of you -- honored to be among those of you who were here 20 years ago for the march. black lives matter is a growing movement, not a moment. we were born just over two years ago. the night that george zimmerman was acquitted in the murder of our son, our brother trayvon martin. i say our son, our brother recognizing that it is sabrina fulton and tracy martin who birthed him, just as mike brown junior is the son of -- and andrew joseph junior is the son of andrew joseph senior and my cousin deanna hardy joseph.

they are all ours. it is not biology that dictates relationship, it is spirit. sandra bland, radel jones, is that henderson, brother africa, megan, and so many others are not individual assaults but collective ones. black people are killed at least every 28 hours. we are under siege, all of us, pulling our pants up to save us. our college degrees will not save us. middle-class status will not save us. they declared war on us, and the worst thing we can do is to act as if we were at peace when we are really at war. lack lives matter is a rally and cried. it is not for us, for them, for

them, but it is for us. black lives matter is a recognition that we have all we need within us to win. it is an accepted of our duty to fight, to refuse to be victims, and except as that we are rebels, we are warriors, we are the daughters of god, harriet tubman, and the sons of that turner -- nat turner. today is a watershed movement. today is the day we step out deliberately, consciously, and confidently onto the battlefield, and we have two charges. one, to radically interstate love ourselves. and two, to commit ourselves to the war that will dismantle the system of white supremacist patriarchal capitalism. that is what or else means. or else means we will no longer

accept the murder of our folks as unintentional, it is by design. things will radically change and they will change now. it is our duty to fight for freedom. >> it is our duty to fight for freedom. >> it is our duty to win. >> it is our duty to win. [indiscernible] >> good afternoon, brothers and sisters. i am humbled to stumble or you today. i wish all of you could be appeared to witness a sea of beautiful faces, represent people from all walks of life and nations. all here for one mission and one purpose, to demand justice or our people.

10 years ago, my mentor henri bellefonte, was watching the news when he saw the video of a five year old black role in florida, handcuffed and sent to jail for throwing a tantrum in her classroom. five years old, imagine that the new child. but this is happening in communities all over our country. the river of blood that flows through the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black men and children. as we stand here today, we can commit to stopping that river. two years ago, i cofounded justice league n.y.c. i called my black brothers and sisters, i called my left the note allies, i called my muslim sisters and brothers to the table -- latino allies, i called my muslim sisters and brothers to the table and we created a

multi-national movement. i come here today as a mexican-american woman, proud chicana, to join with you and raise our voices loud and clear and say -- we have had enough. we are still fighting. this has to and. this will end. 20 years from now, we will stand here again and we will stand in victory. we will stand here celebrating with our heads up high and are this up in the air saying and celebrating our liberation. if we do not get it, we must shut it down. if we do not get it, -- >> shut it down. >> if we do not get it -- justice. si se puede. thank you. >> can you all hear me?

i come from a place that is forgotten about. nothing but an afterthought. i come from a place that people struggle every day. we talk about justice, you are looking for economic justice, social justice, environmental justice, international justice. i am a young black boy with lost voices and all these young people that are in the streets of ferguson for a long time. it is one year later. nobody has come to save us. i'm going to do the same thing they did. ring percyhe same green did. some local names with a national impact.

say,y have one thing to ferguson is the or else. >> [applause] >> [indistinct chatter] >> [singing]

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>> [applause] >> i want you, if you will -- we have almost another one million people 20 years later. would you clap for those who are watching all the way from the back? come on, give some major accommodation for them. >> [applause] >> and then there is a group we forgot about, who we really have to cheer for. would you shout until you need a pack of halls? those watching online and those watching on c-span. >> [applause] >> i want you, if you will, everybody, i want you to go on twitter, go on facebook, for the nine people left on myspace, please go on right now and tell everybody we are getting ready to hear our marching orders for where we go from here.

before we do that, i want to ask you, if you will, an old deacon once said we love to give people the credit, but we don't want to give them the cash. we have to do something to make a monumental movement that lives be on this day. in every section, there is a tent. we want every person to get a gift as we commemorate these 20 years. close to $20 if you can. give your best gift. if you have $100, we don't have change. these, give your best gift as close to $20 as you can. those of you who are watching online, we want you to go to the website. justiceorelse.com. those of you who are writing checks, write a check that is going to clear on monday. if you are not sure, wait another 20 years. but if you are sure, right a check so that we can move -- write a check so that we can

move forward. i will bright writer one said there is no success without a bright mentor. it is my privilege to introduce to you the second in command, who is, in fact, an emerging leader, our greatest bigger. would you please help me warmly welcome minister mohammed? give some praise for him. >> [applause] >> justice! justice! we are gathered today, sober and of a serious mind and unity, to exercise our god-given right

that is justice. recognized in the first amendment, that says that the congress shall make no law prohibiting the people's right to a peaceful assembly and to petition the government for grievances. we are here today because the black man of america and the native americans and the indigenous peoples and the poor of this nation marched -- must have justice. before god punishes a nation, he always intervenes in the affairs of that government of that nation, and of that people. and he raises from the oppressed. he raises from the despised. he raises from the poor of that nation a messenger or a profit. 20 years ago, god made the right call at the right time, through

the honorable minister louis -- four a million man march. -- for a million man march. and a million men answered that call. god was in the call that we all heard. and not only did a million men answer the call, but it was exceeded by 700,000 men. now look from the capitol all the way down to 7th street. the press has asked, how many do you expect? i said, success does not depend on numbers. god called a million men 20 years ago, and you can see by the crowd that is gathered here today that there is one man in america that can make a call and all of us answered that call.

it is the honorable minister farrakhan. he is the representative of christ. >> [applause] >> and he is the representative of god to this wicked nation. so you would be of today -- you didn't come here to hear a politician. you came here today because this is god's man, and this is god's man demanding justice. justice from america. and if america refuses to hear god's call through the honorable minister, there will be more hurricane walking -- joaquins, there will be more tornadoes and earthquakes.

it is time for america to know that god is present. to the whole world that is watching, to all that are gathered here today, let us receive the only man that can tell us what justice is and what justice looks like. please help me to welcome the minister lous farrakhan. >> [applause] [cheering] [applause] who has stood for us, who championed the call to freedom, justice, and equality. who is not afraid to speak the truth that god has put in his

mouth to speak. a people who are afraid of the enemy when we demand justice. it takes strength and courage. this is the honorable minister. a man given to us by god himself. let us receive the man of the hour, the man of the time. he is the national representative of the honorable elijah mohammed. >> [applause] >> please receive -- >> ♪

>> 82 years young, and championed the cause of freedom and justice for over 60 years. god has sent us with the honorable minister. >> [applause] >> ♪ >> [indistinct chatter] >> thank you. i hate being behind this glass.

in the name of the merciful, we give him praise and thanks for all of his profits -- prophets and the scriptures with which he brought. we thank him for moses. we thank him for jesus, who gave us the gospel and the apostles that gave us what is called the new testament. we thank him for -- [indiscernible] -- through whom the last revelation of humanity before this present world, that book is called the holy koran.

i am a student of the most honorable elijah mohammed, and i could never think -- thank a lot -- allah enough for his merciful intervention in our affairs. who is in the world, and is championing the liberations struggle of our people, particularly in the united states of america. i agree to all of you, my dear and wonderful brothers and sisters. with the greeting words, we said in the arabic language -- [speaking in arabic]. first, i want to say to all of

you, i am honored beyond words to be here, standing on this rostrum, in front of this hallowed building, in front of i don't know how many, i'm not going to guess, but i think -- thank almighty god allah for every single one of you that decided to answer the call to demand justice or else. i watched the program in my hotel room. and i want to say how happy i am

to be a part of such a great showing of unity of the aboriginal people of our planet. i want our native american families and brother -- [indiscernible] -- night 12. -- nightwolf. my brother, i'm sorry they cut you a little bit short. but i want you to know how favored you are as a native american giant, standing for his people. the native people who came in their native dress, this is not like going to a football game with the redskins, they are not

here as some mascot. they are here because they are the original owners of this part of the earth, and we honor them with the honor that they are justly due. >> [applause] minister farrakhan: their suffering in their land is very great. so, all of those who cry for justice, no cry is greater than those who have suffered the most. and those who have suffered the most are the indigenous people,

not only of america, but of the western hemisphere, and those of us who were brought into america not as programs -- pilgrims, not as puritans, not seeking another way of worship, but in the holds of ships to be made their burden bearers of the real citizens of america. it is hypocritical for us to say that we are citizens. and we are still trying to get civil rights while at the same time we are denied the human right of self-determination. i am honored to be here, in

front of this great, great house. that was built by black slaves. so i don't think i am in coaching -- encroaching on any american by standing on the ground that was paid for with the sweat and the blood of our ancestors. i'm on it -- i am honored to be here, and am grateful to congressman danny davis for having shepherded through both

houses a joint resolution that allows us to be on the capitol steps. >> [applause] minister farrakhan: i was so touched -- by our native brothers and sisters, and our hispanic brothers and sisters, and some who are black may say, farrakhan, why are you talking to all of these different ethnicities? we have to accept our position. i loved my sister and those

standing with her who championed the call that black lives matter. i felt so happy to see her, and to hear her, and to know -- and for her to know -- that she -- and black lives matter -- are welcomed, have a cherish spot -- cherished spot because they have future leadership. these are not just young people who happen to wake up one morning. ferguson ignited it all. so all the brothers and sisters from ferguson, all the brothers

that laid in the streets, all the brothers and sisters that challenged the tanks, we are honored that you have come to represent our struggles and our demands. again, i'm grateful for the choir that song -- sung, and the brothers and sisters that sang. brother muhammad and his wonderful song that he wrote about the great liberator emiliano zapata, and to all of you who made this day so far what it is, every member of the clergy that prayed this morning,

the muslims, the christians, the various prayers that were said, the native people who have their native places, there teepees and what's not on the ground, --

right here. ben the small, there used to slave pens. and in that movie 12 years slave. the black brother was brought here. down on my left side your right side, in a little yellow house. where he was severely beaten. off to be as sent slave.

the pain of those on whose shoulders we stand. i feel that the ancestors are happy that young generation. that's generation has arisen. they made it, they made it difficult. but the young stood in their place until they could get in because that's who we were for. whato are getting older good are we? if we don't prepare young people

to carry the torch of liberation. what good are we if we think we can last forever and not prepare others who walk in our footsteps. here,f the young that are we honor you. we know who you are. and we will not for sake our duty to you. there some elders that are not ofthy to pass on the legacy this cowardice to our young people. people will not listen to those made in america. america and want about

these people are looking for leadership that cannot be bought. that is willing to sacrifice his life to see a better future for our children. i'm honored that my brother and friend father pflueger is here. he is a great fighter and i in chicago. her and her for dear departed husband who really

showed us the way. whoink i'll for all of you want to sacrifice in some way to make a difference. there can be no freedom no justice know i -- without the willingness of some to sacrifice for the rest. life if we are not free? what good is it to be a live and

every day that you live you see your people suffering? what good is it to be continuing in life under tyranny. so there must be a time when we say enough is enough. it must change. and i'm willing to do whatever it takes to bring about that change. i thank allah for the brother from haiti and brother vladimir from the dominican republic. two great brothers that islam has brought together, but the machinations of white supremacy are trying to keep apart. haiti and the dominican republic used to be called hispañola. and it is the first place that the wicked one, columbus, set

his feet. tomorrow they say is his birthday. i think it is tomorrow, or the day after. monday. but no indigenous people want to celebrate a man who came and dislodged them. a man who came seeking a new route to india and ended up in america.

and when they saw the original people they saw, well, they must be indians because us white folk don't make mistakes like that. but they are not just indians, nor are we african-americans. we were here before a continent named africa was named. we were certainly here before america's -- this part of the name was -- this part of the world was named after him. so we don't diminish ourselves by naming ourselves after johnny-come-lately. we are the aboriginal people of our planet, and before there was a planet, we were here. with god. in the beginning. black woman, you are not the second self of man alone. you are the second self of god. and as the second self of god,

and a man that would disrespect a female is an enemy of god. because she is the greatest gift from god to a man. >> [applause] minister farrakhan: may i pause for a moment and say to women: your language must change as to how you address yourselves. you should never call another woman a bitch. >> [applause] minister farrakhan: get that word out of our language. no female is asked to a dog. every female is up to god.

so all of you black men that like to use such words, pull it out of your tongues before your tongue is pulled out of your head. >> [applause] minister farrakhan: every woman is from the creator. her womb is the workshop of god. so when a man sees a woman, he should bow in honor to her. the native americans can teach us much in the respective women. i have been up on the reservations, i have been to some of their ceremonies. and the native people, the men draw blood, hanging from trees

and carrying skulls of animals in dirt attached to the flesh of their back in tremendous pain until the flash snaps and blood pours out. the native people do that to pay honor to the woman. for she is in labor, enduring the pain of death to bring forth new life. and there is always a show of blood before the birth, so the

man is trying to equal himself to the woman. that means that the native man, who disrespects your female, you have lost your way. and any black man under the sound of our voice, any red man, any yellow man that will traffic women and girls, you are worthy of death itself. >> [applause] minister farrakhan: now, through the womb of a woman, every great one was born. and every no good one was born.

>> [laughter] minister farrakhan: but my dear sisters who are here today, if you are expecting, i would love for you to place your right hand over your womb. and i want to ask allah that every woman who is pregnant, that she would bring her child to term. and i pray that that child will be a worrier -- warrior for a brand-new world.

and that brand-new world will come out of the womb of women with strong man as their protectors. now, it is your body. you can do with it as you please. but it would be so tragic if the next fetus was aborted. it would be tragic if the next malcolm x or much in the decaying or the next moses or abraham or jesus was flushed away. you don't know who your child is going to be. if you are wise, your child could be the answer to your prayers. why do you pray, or others in sisters? -- brothers and sisters?

you pray that things would be made better. mothers or cousins or aunts have died from cancer. don't you want to see a cure for such a disease? that cure is not coming out of the sky. that cure is coming from the womb of a female that may think she is not important, but out of that womb, could come the cure of every disease that humankind is suffering from. there was a strange circumstance around my birth. and my mother did not wish to carry me to turn -- term.

and in those days, they didn't have abortion clinics. women who wanted to abort the new life used hangers. metal hangers. my mother tried three times to abort my life. because the circumstances under which she was pregnant were uncomfortable for her. and she didn't want to face what my being a child -- light-skinned -- when the man she was with was dark skinned, and so was she. and she wouldn't be able to tell him that i was his.

so after the first time trying to abort my life, she said, let it be. and she prayed and prayed for god to come into her life and give her peace and strength in her for what she thought she would have to face. she didn't know that those circumstances and her prayers went into what was in her womb. she didn't know that her insecurity because of a circumstance made her feel secure in the prayers she was sending up to god.

and so she gave birth to a child. -- child who knew god from an early age. she gave birth to a child that never in my life did i find refuge in any man.

my refuge and my protection was always grounded in my faith in a superior being. so many people wonder why is farrakhan so bold? it is because i am free from fear! >> [applause] minister farrakhan: how could farrakhan tell the fbi and the cia and the irs to go to hell when others tremble at the names? they don't have a name deep enough to make a man who has been shown the arm of god to be afraid of a man who can never do to me nothing more than what god would have them to do, and if he permits it, i am -- [indiscernible] -- even if it is my death.

our problem is there is too much fear among us. and fear is what takes a man and makes him a punk. >> [applause] minister farrakhan: women are showing more strength as sister eva said earlier. she is the natural protector of what her womb produces. and sisters, you should never love any man more than the love you have for what you are will produces if that man becomes a violator -- what's your -- what your womb produces if that man becomes a violator of a child.

>> [applause] minister farrakhan: knowing god, not talking god, but to knowing god is what takes fear from your heart. a fearful people can't be free. a fearful people will bow down when it appears that the enemy is so strong and we are so weak. as i was preparing this morning to come, i was thinking about us who are preachers. who can quote the psalms. the lord is my strength, and he

is my salvation. of whom then shall i fear? of whom then shall i be made afraid? but to then where the energy him andbut to then where the energy comes, -- enemy comes, and challenges his word, we find him weakening, running away, leaving the sheep to be eaten by the wolves. that is why jesus said, i am the good shepherd. the good shepherd will lay down his life for the sheep. any man in leadership that is not willing to give his life for the -- that supports him and feeds them and close him -- clothes him is not worthy of being a leader.

many in leadership today are willing to take a little money. it grieves me to see how many of us will sell out the future of our people for a little money that allows us to get an upgrade in our automobiles. or an upgrade in our suit. or shoes. and i ask myself the question: when will corruptible put on incorruptible? because all corruption is an enemy of the progress of man.

all corruption. all deviation from honesty and integrity. you can say, well, farrakhan, my god, what are you saying? i am saying that if you love god, with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your brother as yourself, nobody could give you enough money to make you betray yourself as well as your brother or sister. >> [applause]

minister farrakhan: when i first started rebuilding the nation of islam, in chicago, a man came to me and said, farrakhan, everybody has got a price. i wondered who he had met. that everybody that he knew had a price. well, this man don't have a friend. nowhere. because a friend will never betray his friend. how many in this audience have been called by the government authorities and told to lie?

because they wanted a certain person. and if you lied, they would make it easier for you and your sentence. how many of us have sold out to get a lighter sentence? and major brother, who was innocent, a victim of the justice system that is unjust by telling lies. i am talking to you like this. i have some notes that i put down, but i haven't opened it.

because this is not a day, 10-10-15. hell no. if this is a day and we come out going back to doing what we were doing before we got here, then this is all vanity. this is vanity. but vanity is the work of someone who's wrapped up in himself. we have no time for famed expression. those whom the world honors are those who live for others! and in their death, they are never dead. there is always someone coming up to refer to their greatness because they lived for others, and they are living -- their living was not in vain.

why am i saying that at this point? we are facing another election. the republicans have, i don't know how many, is it 17? well, it was. and they are really like the pretty girl who is well formed, showing -- so that some men with money will buy her -- some man with money will buy her. who wants to be a whore? no, no, no. listen to me. do you think people with money put their money behind you if they don't expect something from you? that's what makes this a problem.

$3.3 billion in the last few years have been paid by lobbyists to this house. what are they lobbying for? laws that may not be in the best interest of the people. how then can you look in the mirror at yourself when you are bought and paid for whores? and then what do you get for being a whore? john fitzgerald kennedy lies across the water in the beautiful grave with an eternal flame.

and john fitzgerald kennedy had a beautiful home. he had boats, he had so much material wealth. but the end is the same. a spot in a little coffin, and six feet of dirt. naked came i into the world, and naked geoeye out -- go i out. so why are you lying and cheating and stealing to give something to your children? who if you lied and cheated and stole to get what you got, you couldn't teach them values.

so all that you left is squandered by ignorant children. don't you think it would be better to be like dr. king? he didn't have a lot of money. he could have if he were a sellout. malcolm didn't have a lot of money. he could have. great ones don't amass wealth to the two children. great ones amass wealth to leave for institutions that live after they are dead and gone. the grave is waiting for everyone of us that are gathered here today. why are you saying this, farrakhan? because this is not a moment, as my sister said.

this is a movement. i'm going to say it again. this is not a moment. this is a movement. when the brothers and sisters arose in ferguson, you didn't have any money. you had a principal. a principal that you are willing to suffer for, that you felt was bigger than yourself and your life. and the withstanding of pain. but all of a sudden, the enemy comes with money. if we give you this, will you come out of the streets? and some of us -- we are all poor -- but some of us see that as an opportunity. so the movement begins to die, those who leave the movement -- lead the movement take a money as a bribe to stop hurting a force that you are coming against. the demand for justice demands

integrity. the demand for justice demands selflessness. the demand for 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 greater than the one.

and so, we are here today. i had some hard truths to say. i want you to bear with me. because i want to show you why there is no government on this earth, not one, that can give the people what the people desire of freedom, of justice and equity. 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. until and unless the cb is placed that the seed -- the 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.

it is nourished by water and that magnificent son. -- sun. decedent swells and bursts, sending the roots down. issue comes up -- a shoot comes up and what was within manifests itself and it is then a glory of god, its creator. you all started, we all started from a sperm, a seed. god is not wasteful. 100 million sperm may be released at one time. some even say a billion. but only one can fertilize the egg.

but god come if you are not wasteful, what happens to the other sperm? what do we do with it? that 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 vegetation we desire, the birds sense that seeds are being sown. you seem to birds collect over the land.

if this unit does not go deep enough -- get the seed does not go deep enough, the bird flies down and the seeds become food. god wastes nothing. but you are a seed. i am a seed. we have not yet been placed in 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. i don't know anybody in the house i could trust. to bring his program. so, i came to bring it myself.

as his student. now, i want you to think about what i'm about to say. this program has been appearing 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. 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 am from jamaica, men i'm from the caribbean. i'm from africa, ghana. that don't define you. you are defined by the nature in him and which you were created. if your nature is the same as the nature of god, no landmass

can define you. so, the koran says sent your face for religion being upright the nature made by allah in 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 terrier or a shepherd or pitbull. if it is a male, whenever it sees a hydrant, it will lift its leg.

nobody taught it that. it's what it will do. if you understand your nature, you will understand the unlimited possibilities of the human being. god 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.

-- unexcellent tree. it is excellent. it is not an unexcellent bird. it is a bird. it is an ant, it is the sun, the moon, the stars. excellent creations from an excellent creator. you are an excellent 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. a lot of black people that work 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.

look, there is so and so. as if so and so is greater than you, so and so. they are only great in your eyes because you have not open your eyes to the greatness of yourself. so, look, brothers and sisters. the greatness of god is part of the thing that makes us so dissatisfied with government. your yearning for something that the government can't give you. you are born to be free. the muslim program says we want freedom. we want a 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? him if i am a seed and i'm 50 years old and i'm still a seed, have never been planted in the right environment to develop myself, then i don't have freedom. but when i am free and fully developed, then i have attained a full and complete freedom.

him can this house 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. we are just making a demand because it is right to do it but we know they can't do it. why can't they? let me show you why. the other day, for the first time i said let me go out and visit all the monuments that are on the small -- this mall where 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. now, this mall is hallowed ground for us, but it is also sacred ground for those who love america. and thomas jefferson was one of the most brilliant of the founding fathers of this country. if you read his words -- i will read a few. just to let you see that he was not a christian, he never said

he was, but he certainly was what they call a deist. he believed in one god. now, look at this. he said that he was talking about justice. he was talking about slavery. i want to give you an assignment.

they were some things when he wrote the declaration of independence that they took out. because he was dealing with king george as a vile man because he 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 free, one 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? see, this thing has reached the

point of explosion. black people that are here, even those in high places, are saying we cannot take this much longer. it is like a volcanic eruption that is coming out. they say volcanoes are burst out of magma. molten rock. with gases. and this molten rock and the gases at the bottom, you happen upper crust -- have an upper crust that begins to come down and meet the rock many -- the molten rock beneath.

i hear you in the middle class 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. gases are coming up and you see 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 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 farrakhan? i want to show the world hypocritical america that is telling everyone that they are violating human rights while in america, there is all this

dissatisfaction. i think, mr. president, we ought 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 human rights violations -- as if you don't have no problem in america. we 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. and trembling for america when he reflected that god is just and his justice would not sleep forever.

and then, thomas jefferson with his others fashioned the seal of this nation. at first, the seal reflected the wrath of god. in a light from above. and fell on me below. that the wrath of god would come down on america is america would not free the slaves. -- if america will not free the slaves. he knew it should be done. so, thomas jefferson said we

need to let the slaves go. we need to give them a good sendoff. we need to give them land, we need to give them machinery. we need to give them seeds to plant crops. we need to teach them the science of where fair -- warfare that they would be able to defend the land they would be given. this is thomas jefferson. but he could not force it. there 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. i don't care nothing about what the politicians are saying. "we think you all should have some freedom." like the pope who came so beautifully a few weeks ago and i listened to him, i took a few days rest from the tour because i became sick with pneumonia and i went away for 10 days. during that 10 days, his holiness was here and i watched him every day until his plane left.

i thought about this human being who has captured the world. and then i thought about him in ecuador 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. because the 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 said, with this sign, we conquer. the cross and christianity at that time was not the real teaching of jesus christ.

it was a philosophy, an ideology that formed white supremacy. will you forgive us? the pope asked, i did not hear the answer then. the people of ecuador and paraguay and bolivia, we don't hear their answer. but in charleston, after nine of our brothers and sisters were killed, before the dead were even buried, before the culprit even asked to be forgiven, we, with our loving misunderstanding of jesus christ said what.

what did we say? we forgive you. you don't even allow yourself to grieve naturally. 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. show me come in scriptures where jesus said we all ought to let satan. -- love satan. the devil. see, the devil was wicked from the beginning.

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. show me come in 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.