Carolina QuotesWe are standing on the sacrifice of the lives of those heroes, our great men and women that we today may accept the responsibility that life imposes upon each traveler who comes this way. We must accept the responsibility that God has put upon us, not only to be good husbands and fathers and builders of our community, but God is now calling upon the despised and the rejected to become the cornerstone and the builders of a new world.
Louis Farrakhan Connected to the Carolinas
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- Million Man March speech (October 16, 1995)
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- 1995
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“We are standing on the sacrifice of the lives of those heroe…” Louis Farrakhan. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-EAC9625500. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/eac9625500
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