I've been looking for the professional people about 40 years.
The main thing about constructing what we're struggling for, and laying its foundation, is access to the material. If you have the material, lots of work is possible.
When it's learned that you are going to help build what Elijah and his followers want, access to the materials are denied or hampered. If you have access, sometimes they wait until the job is right in the midst of its schedule then claim material shortage. Obviously, this slows progress down.
The Muslim Follwers of Elijah Muhammad and the professional people must meet privately in an effort to understand each other. We would love to give you work if you can get the materials. That's the thing: get the material to build with.
When the whites find out that you are trying to build for the Muslims, and he wanting the big jobs himself, because he knows we have awful big jobs that lasts, he doesn't want our contracts going to you.
We and our professional people must get together and get behind the door and whisper to each other. There is no one to stop us and can stop us but God alone.
We know we have to enter politics somewhere, but we don't want the kind of politics which the whiteman has set up for you. We don't want to follow what way.
I am now looking at an example of clean politics from the nation of Asia and portions of Africa.
This type politics will make you a better man. They don't have robbery and deceitful politics, which you are born under, here in America's way of politics.
We don't want no thieves in our nation. As it is written, Jesus said, and I say the same, "All before me were thieves and robbers." Jesus could not have said that, because that would have meant that all prophets before him were thieves and robbers, but I can say it absolutely and prove it.
We don't want to build a nation on the basis of who can rob the other the quickest and get the most.
We want to build up a nation with a clean heart and hands, to deal with their people in the way of justice and righteous.
We don't want any robbers. We can't use a robber; especially, after being robbed to death by our enemy, the slave master's children.
The professors we've been looking for have always been running from us. We are ready to write you down on our book that you are one of ours. We can't promise you a roll of money in both hands and tell you " Here,take it." You've got to help us make that money. We don't have that rolled up over here waiting for you to come and use it. No. We want you to help get that money. We want to build a world for the black man.
The white world is moving off the scene. If you don't know it, I'll show it to you. You've got to do something for yourself or else. I'm not saying this just to be talking. I'm talking to hear from you.
We've got to do something for self. I have the key to doing for self. If you will come get yours, I will have it.
At the present time, as you probably know, many countries are, for the first time, uniting themselves.
Here we are, the poor forgotten people in America singing old glory to Allah, glory to the Lord, glory to Jesus and doing nothing about making that glory. Make your glory for yourself.
Stop laying around the other fellow's gate, begging him to make you a glorious place.
We must go ahead and till the earth.
I told you a few years ago that's where everything comes from, like your food, your clothes, and your shelter. It all comes from that place we call the farm.
We can't be too proud to be called farmers, but I say, the day has arrived that if you don't have a farm, you won't live off the other farmer. You got to have a farm to eat. You've got to have a farm to wear good clothes. You got to have a farm to live in a good home. So, I say, lets get ready to go to the farm.
We have to enter into the farming area. We are trying to grow everything that's good for us. We need your skill. Don't give it back to those people who taught you how to farm in their schools, the agriculture schools of the enemy.
You go and get the knowledge, but go for yourself after you get it.
I want to say this without saying one false word: I have the world backing me. They want me to chop up this country for you and me. I'm not biting my lip or tongue. We want this country for you and they are offering me help.
Sometime when you have fine propety and people keep on asking you to sell and you don't sell, they start another way to get your property. I think we should meet with the salesman and not with the other fellow. What do we look like, here there's millions of black people in America, walking around begging, begging for a good house to live in, begging for a store, begging for a little old place to put up a supermarket? If you're super enough, there already is a market.
I've been running around here for years looking for my educated people; all types of educated people.
We have millions of people in America that want to see the nation of the black man up doing something for himself and building his own jobs. We can build them for ourselves and we're just a small group. We will build our own jobs. We're not thinking about unemploynent, we are thinking about over-employment.
Did you know that we have some lazy people? You go give him a job and he lays down and go to sleep on it.
I wish you professors will join me and help me put this nation to work. We can make jobs on top of jobs.
Where would the money come from? Us! Where did the money come from when the white man built jobs for himself and us?
We are the original people of the earth, why cannot we do a better job than he?
We've been free for the last one hundred years or more. What have we made for ourselves? Nothing but trouble in trying to force the white man to build jobs for us.
We go to war with him if he doesn't make a job for us.
If he has freed you, make your own jobs, but if you think you are not free and you want to continually be a slave for him, then you go and tell him that, "I am still a slave, make me a job."
I don't believe in being a slave forever. Let me loose. I'm going to run and get away from your slave house, and see if I can build one for myself.
You businessmen and great educators, all we need to do is get together and agree on what we shall do first, because you know how to do these things.
We know we can agree, because we have the same idea; therefore, we got to agree.
You may be saying, "This is a little frllow popping off around here. We want to go to Mr. Ford, we want to go over to General Motors. Let us get started over there with them and make them richer "
My beloved brothers, what is coming on us now is going to drive you to the bread wagon if you don't get up and do something for yourself.
The uniting of Japan, China and their other allies are uniting together to deal with self, not with white people.
If white people want to come in, they must come in by what they offer them. This is something the East has not been doing.
By now, they are ready to push the West out of the East, so that they can do business with each other and they have plenty of "each other" over there. They have hundreds of millions of people. They are sick of the West and they are going to push the West out so that the East can be. Believe it or not, this is a direction as you call it in slang, "from the horses brow."
If you want to do business, get together and do business on a wholesale way and not on no little piece retail way.
Why do you want to run to your enemy's hospital when you have good trained nurses and doctors. You have nurses throughout the world who would be willing to come here and take care of you, even at no pay. Some of them love you just that much, to try seeing that you are cared for right.
You have a lot of them working in other hospitals, here before your face and mine. There's hardly a little clinic wherein you don't find a foreign nurse, if not a doctor. They want to see you taken care of.
I know all of this going on and I have the key to it. They are sitting aroound watching and waiting for us to do something of the kind, so they can get in there and take care of you to keep you from falling into the hands of the enemy.
What do you look like fighting your enemy out there and then ask him to heal you and nurse your wounds.
If you and me are fighting and you wound me, you could continue wounding me if I fall in your arms to be healed.
You know we are silly people, an extremely silly people!
I'd rather raise up a tent and put some logs down there, put some mattress on top of them and let my own brother wash clean the wound and pour in his medicine than ask the same man that I'm fighting to do so.
Have you ever thought of this?
You're fighting the enemy then run to him to heal your wounds. This is really ignorant!
Shall not we get together and build us up some kind of shelter to heal our wounds? Certainly we shall do so.
I feel so cheap talking with the devil and he has all the places to be cared for.
Why furnish us doctors when we have black doctors right behind us. He will make us feel better if he's waiting on us. A black nurse will make us feel better. Let her wait on us. Do you not see how dumb we are? We are pretty ignorant in this big old wide USA, and in every corner we look or on every square foot we find the enemy. He's against us; yet,we won't build up a hospital for self.
Try to do these things or wait around and it will be too late, then you will cry, "Oh, woe is me. I let such an opportunity that Elijah Muhammad was teaching go by. I fooled around and didn't do nothing, but depend on the white man."
Build up something for ourselves and then the nations of the earth will recognize you as they are recogized themselves for doing for self.
No need to say you don't have a chance. Oh yes, we can break the chains, brother, and come on out of it. We don't have nothing that's binding us which we cannot destroy and free ourselves.
I want you to remember this, you are a little too happy to do temporary things. We don't want any temporary things. We want permanent things!
The professional people, we can take these people and build the finest nation there is on Earth. But we cleave our tongues to the roof of our mouths and won't let it speak for ourselves.
If we tie our own hands behind us so the hands won't do for self, you can expect to suffer.
We certainly need you that know something about airplanes. We've got to have these planes that rolls on the air instead of the ground. We do have this in mind about getting some planes that will take us around. We hope to find you ready for that job of flying them.
Oh yes, we have one poor pitiful plane and we want it to get some mates for itself.
We want you to learn how to fly. If you don't know, learn.
I have a grandson. I'm trying my best to make him learn to be a great flyer. He's flying planes now. But I want more of it. We want flyers that will train to fly planes over sea, not just around here over the city.
We want to get in it and go all over the world like other nations.
The worst thing that you can do is set up unions, labor unions and leaders among yourself. This brings the other fellow in and he knows how to set the trigger for you to fall all the time. We have no rights to have a union if we're going to deal with each other on the basis of freedom, justice and equality.
I have a lot of untrained people with me who want to learn these jobs. If you will look down on the poor little brother and say, "He was not as fortunate as I was. Come on here in this old barn or anywhere here, let us get together and fix up something and go for self."
I know it looks hard educators, professional people for you to drop down among uneducated people trying to build them up, but they are your brothers as well as mine.
I'm making them grow up. I just need your help and your learning.
We will have a nation prepared and fitted for the world of national recognition. It's just that you don't want to go into the job of associating with little poor brothers, because you have your degrees from high educated centers of this people and you don't want to drop back to make some for yourself.
These people I have learned, professors and educators, to be your best friend, if you will take a little time in training them. You really have yourself something when you train one of these. But if you look for your equal all the time or your match, then you're going to run into arguments, disagreements, and breaking up the unity and what-not.
If you train him for what you need, he's yours and he'll love you. You got someone that you can depend on.
I Know you're not too good a Christian nor a Muslim. You know my father he was a Basptist preacher, I use to chase him after he preached to question him on his sermon, so I'm still doing that.
Let us have a special meeting for special things, not an open meeting saying what we are going to do and do nothing.
Let's go get in a room, sit down face to face and tell each other what we can do and what we must do right away.
This is the way to get business started.
You can't start business by hailing each other across the street. We got to get in a room someplace and look each other in the eye and tell each other what each can do and what each can't do.
If we can't do the things that we want done, we go out and look for that fellow.
Fine, highly educated people don't have work to do, their work is shutting off fast.
The devil has unemployment in your office. He doesn't know what to do with his own unemployed professional people. This is why they're having so much trouble in the school. They want something to do when they get their diplomas and their degrees, but where are you going to get that something if you don't make it for yourself?
You got to make it for yourselves. If you don't make it for yourselves, who is going to make it for you, when America is faced with the worst problem she ever had; that is, unemployment from her armed forces.
When they come back home, what is she going to give them to do? This means a war, then, at home. They're going to start fighting for something and America knows that she's in trouble. She will be sending these unemployed soldiers back home to do nothing. She's in trouble, but she doesn't know what to do with these people.
We've got to work in order to keep pace with our enemies.You have the most schooling of the enemies' educational system, I say come and I'll show you how to use it, if you don't know how.
The only thing that we want is togetherness and agreement on what we do and we don't stop until we do it.
Why should we contine to dislike each other when we are brother's? While the white man likes the American white man. He likes the European white man. He likes the Australian white man. He likes the white people all over the Earth.
Well, why shouldn't we like Black people all over the Earth. We are hard to agree with self, not to mention the heartless, merciless, blue-eyed devils. We want to please them first, then if you have any pleasing left, you'll take it over to self.
"But I first must please my white enemies," this is the way you work.
I say friend, we are Muslims. We are not scared of the devil nor are we scared of his hell. I will take the blame. I don't have to take it, come on and follow me and I will take the blame.
"What can you do?" Plenty! With the help of my God and others, I can do plenty and are doing plenty.
You are so afraid, that you're going to go hungry, or lose your prestige among white people. You will never get no place like that.
Look at that small Japanese people, very small people; nevertheless, they have sense enough to unite with his own. He was yelling over there before the last war, "Asia for the Asiatic! Asiatic is for Asia!" until they give them a deaf ear; then, the enemy all but run them out of Asia. Now he sings that song and he got plenty who are ready now to unite with him and say Asia is for Asia.
He laid hold on his big brother the other day, China. China laid hold to his little brother Japan. Now here we are a little people here numbering somewhere around 30 million and see how we are destroying ourselves.
Let us unite!
If you see a root cracking the Earth in your midst that looks to you like it will bear fruit, why don't you come on and let's cultivate that little old root there and let us bear fruit.
It's a shame for me to stand here before you professional people and talk of getting together and building an "up from slavery people," united into a nation of progress and success for self. You should be standing up here where I am, telling us what to do. But, you got a little, uneducated man that God looked at. These are the words that He said to me, He said to me, He said, " Will you come and help put my people on top of civilization?" I said " Yes sir, if you back me up and guide me, yes sir."
So, as it's written, the sound, the Bible said, went throughout the earth. A great people rose up and God pointed the Messenger out to them. He said, "See, they all will come to thee. They all will bow down to thee."
That's in your Bible and this is true.
I have people out there in the street waiting to get a chance to talk to this little boy.
Highly learned Scientists have heard of me. They're coming up every day or two, wanting to see the little man that you call Elijah Muhammad.
Africa is mine. This is no joke-it's mine. They open their doors for me anywhere over there to build Africa.
" If I had sent thee to a strange nation, foreign language, they would have heard", this is the Bible.
" But, I sent you to the rebellious house of Israel". The rebellious house of the black man of America.
That's who it's talking about, not Israel, but it's you.
They would have heard you and that's easy to prove today.
From the shores of Texas down through the little Islands falling off at your feet around to the Gate of Good Hope, you have brothers. They're just like that, just so happy to fall in the circle with Muhammad.
We can't build the Black man of America up by letting him carry his bottle of hard corn and rye whiskey; he'll never be anything carrying that kind of fire water.
We must get together and stop him from drinking.
When he gets under the Crescent, he's willing to stop. He feels too dingnified to make a fool out of himself, but under the cross, he don't care.
Let us get together and make our people a number one people who the whole world will respect.
Let's take our woman out of the world and put her in her own world to learn and make something out of her.
We can do it! You see a sketch of the work that I'm doing. They're falling for it. They're not turning it down. They're accepting it.
Help me make a nation that is unsurpassed by any nation on the Earth. That's what we have to do now since the enemy of ours makes us unwanted and unrecognized by all societies of the Earth's people.
We got to regain our place in society and you're capable of doing it.
If I can give you a sample, why can't you and I make the goods. If I, a little blind man from among you, have taken some of the worst that ever lived and got them over here to the machine, making them better dresses, and they like them, why can't you help me do this? You know how.
Don't think that the enemy will not recognize you. He will respect you if he respects me. What God has taught me, you and I can force him to respect us, because we have better knowledge of cleanliness, better knowledge of what we need in the field of mathematics, and a better knowledge of the pen.
You are the best in all of that.
Let us get together brother and sister and let the world know that we are capable of demanding respect.
We shouldn't wait for them to respect us on their initial step, we'll do that ourselves. We will force them to do it.
The time that we are living in is both a time of love and hate. Love is growing among us; wherein, it never was before, and hate is growing in us, wherein, it never was before.
We just learned the source of our trouble, which is loving an enemy who was born and made to be an enemy for us. We loved him and called ourselves following after Jesus Christ.
Jesus hates the devil himself and he wrote that if you love the devil you will not see Heaven-in these words, "He that love this world... " think over that " he's and enemy to God."
I think the professional people should join up with the Muslims, not wait for the Muslims to join up with you. We can't join with you, then we will go right back into slavery.
If you feel like you want to lead and preach to your people come over here and I will teach you how. You'll get you a house full overnight.
You let me teach you how to preach and what to preach, I will assure that you will have a house fill overnight.
You don't have so many at your churches. We pass them daily. If you come and accept your own, which is Islam, and go back to your church and start preaching it, you will fill your chruch up.
The people are waiting for something now. They don't want that slavery stuff of telling them that they got to die to go to heaven. They want some of this Heaven they can see. No, the heaven that they are not sure of, is the one wherein, if he dies, he can't come back and tell you if you told him a lie or the truth.
Let's get together on what we see and not on what we're promised we'll see when we are dead.
There is no man that ever lived and died and then came back. When he's dead for sure, go and call him all you want, go and lay down in the grave with him, he don't answer.
One or two words can stop that kind of teaching. Show me one that was once dead, went back to the Earth and he's now living. Show him to me.
"Jesus rose from the dead." Tell them to show him to you.
What is meant when the scholars and scientists said Jesus rose from the dead, means a man with ideas and teaching like that which Jesus wanted to give us, but he was before time and he died.
We want to say to you that there is no such thing of anybody being put down in the ground and he return to that which we had taken him from.
He came out of the earth, now we return him to the Earth. No one has ever seen one come out of the grave.
You can say you dreamed something like that, but dreams are not always true.
If Jesus has come back, none of us have met him yet and all the prophets of old died.
The Creator of this Heaven and Earth, in which we live, he died. We don't meet with Him. We have not met Him, no sir.
I want to teach you these things that you have misunderstood. There is no such thing as a human or any flesh or life, whatever it may be, dies and comes back, it doesn't come back. The white man taught you this, but you never did know what he meant by this.
He meant this: "You are dead now nigger, but you can live again, because you are God's people and He's coming after you one day to take you away from me, then you will come alive in the knowledge of what I have done to keep you like you are."
Today is the resurrection of the dead. The resurrection of the mentally dead slave.
You are the mentally dead, not physically dead, but mentally dead.
"Blessed is he," the Bible says " that died in the name of the Lord."
You and I died in the name of the Lord, "hence forth, says the spirit," they shall live again, because he's already from God and he just died in the knowledge of his God, so he's going to be awaken one day and he's going to live again.
"But...," says the scripture in another place, referring to his own Apostle, "he's my first born, the first to rise from the dead. I called him and he answered me, and I'm going to give him the key so that he may call others, and bring them to light."
I was put here by God Himself. There is no class of scholars and scientists that could say that they had anything to do with my mission; yet, I work as the book says, concerning God, "Who shall hinder us."
I do my work that is assigned to me for you, and there is no scholar or scientist of this devil or any other nation that can stop me.
It is the very first time since we have risen from servitude slavery, that one not educated in the schools of the slave master, stood before you with more power than a professor of the land.
There is nothing that you would want to do in the way of building a nation for self, like all other nations have built for themselves, that we cannot do if you would just accept my advice.
You have the education and I will show you how to rule and take over the world.
Ask some of the scientists about Elijah Muhammad . Ask them, " Do you think he's on the way to building up a nation for his people?" They will say, yes.
Any scientists of the black man, or yellow man, if you go ask them these words, the will tell you, "Yes, I have heard of him."
Just as your Bible teaches you in a symbolic language: He said the sound went throughout the Earth, meaning that the news of this man's work, his teaching, has now been heard all around the Earth; and it is.
You certainly don't have a frightful rabbit of a man that will run every time he hears a hound bark. I will teach you how to chase the hound and let the rabbit bite him, instead of him biting the rabbit.
I'm known all over the Earth. One brother was in Russia and he was talking to some of the Muslims there and they reminded him of some Muslims having been there. He said, "Oh, you're talking about Elijah Muhammad, is that his name, yes." He said he never did meet with such clambering people for Muhammad. He said they wanted to learn how could they get in touch with me.
There, we have a lot of Muslims in Russia and we have a lots in China.
Come on if you would like to be known; come follow me and the world will know you.
Let us get together and build something out of the American slave people whom the world will be happy to meet, as they are you.
Come on all of you men and women that have professional diplomas, and professional degrees. Let's get together and make our people glad. Ask them, they will tip their hat, scrape thier feet to you to build them up. I have untold amount of material to give to you to build them up. Come on. Let's unite together and make a nation out of ourselves, that the world will respect.