Malcolm X (1992)

Al Freeman Jr.: Elijah Muhammad

Quotes 

• Elijah Muhammad : [to Malcolm X]  You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic.

• Elijah Muhammad : I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do. The earth belongs to us: the black man. And whatever is around it or on it or in it, belongs to us.

• Elijah Muhammad : My son. You have been a thief, a drug dealer, and a hustler - and the world is still full of temptation. When God spoke to the devil about how faithful Job was the devil argued that it was only God's protective hedge around him that kept him - pure. ln fact, about it, the devil said: "Remove that hedge and he will curse his Maker." Well, Malcolm, your hedge has been removed. And l believe you will remain faithful.

• Elijah Muhammad : Too many of our women have too much of the devil in them. Bleaching and dyeing and ironing their hair. Running around in the streets - half-naked! Talking too much. Listening to the *wrong* men - making them deceitful, untrustworthy, fresh.

• Elijah Muhammad : Samson was the strongest man that ever lived, was destroyed by the woman that slept in his arms.

• Elijah Muhammad : After me, there will be no more. *No* more.

• Elijah Muhammad : lslam is the only religion that addresses the needs and the problems of the so-called Negro in America. Especially in the slums, in the ghettos. lslam is the only way out of drugs and crime and unemployment, prostitution, alcohol, gambling and adultery and fornication.