Excerpts from Louis Farrakhan's momentous speech at the Million Man March:

In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial. Each one of these is 19 feet high. [sic] Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president, Thomas Jefferson, the third president, and 16 and 3 make 19 again. What is so deep about this number 19? Why are we standing on the Capitol steps today? That number 19, when you have a 9, you have a womb that is pregnant, and when you have a 1 standing by the 9, it means that there's something secret that has to be unfolded....

There in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a 1 in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia, as slaves. [The year was actually 1619.]...

[Concerning atonement] A tone means sound.... So what is the A tone? In music, A equals 440 vibrations. And how long have we been in America? Four hundred and forty years. [376 years] ...

White supremacy caused Napolean to blow the nose off the Sphynx because it reminded you too much of the black man's majesty....

The Democratic Party has for its symbol a donkey. The donkey stands for the unlearned masses of the people. But the Democratic Party can't call the masses no more. You got them all tied up, but you're not using them. The donkey's tied up. But can you get off today? No, I can't get off today, I'm tied up. Somebody on your donkey?

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