in the name of allah to be i bear witness that there is but one god the origin of all truth the second of all prophets and the revealing of all revelations that come from him he is the author of life and the ultimate cause of death worthy to be served worthy to be we as muslims believe in all of the prophets and we make no distinctions among them we believe in all of the scriptures which they brought to add vance humanity in the knowledge of god and in the secrets that are bound up in this magnificent universe we thank him for moses and the torah and the israel like prophets who gave us what is called the old testament we thank him for jesus and the gospel or the in gilo as it is called and the apostles by whom we have what i called the new testament and we think a lot for mohamed out of the law and the holy land which is the final revelation that was given to the human family i am a student of the most honorable elijah muhammad and i could never thank a lot enough for his merciful intervention in the affairs of the black man and woman of america in the person  and mohammed whom we believe is the long awaited and expected the of the muslims he came among our condition and raised one from among us to guide us as the prophets of old guided community that had lost the way the black man and woman of america we are not ourselves we were brought to america to be made  slaves they never brought us here to make us equal citizens and to this very moment we are not yet equal citizens and with the recent election the fear that has come upon us i want to comfort you in a sense that you have nothing to be a free beyond words to be here at this institution rutgers university and i want to they had to struggle to put this program on because they never got money enough to put it on in so many hoops were given to them to jump through but praise belongs to god we're here i never i never charge one penny right that's right i paid my way for walter and brought my staff yes right i'm here for the institute of the black world that's having their conference in new york be speaking god willing there tomorrow morning i never charge them extra to bring me i don't who have struggled and i have been teaching now for over sixteen years and i am not  you are the love of my life and any time i can get a chance to impart knowledge to you that will make life for you and the struggle that all life has to have but make it easier for you so that you don't repeat the mistakes of the past in your struggle for liberation the only life you have it is precious and you must never let anyone take your life without fighting to preserve and protect it and i growing up used to watch the cockroaches in some of the little apartments that i had to live in and when the lights came on you know you don't know anything about those cockroaches began to run they understood and the scriptures have it beautifully the people that walked into see have seen a great light upon them half the light guns that's not the real revolution the real revolution is scientific as the like strikes the earth at its see quite a and the earth turns at a speed of one thousand and thirty seven and one third miles per hour dipping in and out giving you your full seasons but it revolves on its axis and it revolves around the sun making revolution where you have one revolution every three hundred sixty five and one quarter a days that's your year you have another every twenty three hours forty six minutes fifty six minutes and forty six seconds that's your day so now my mother is the greatest woman in my life and i would not be who i am and what i am without her i'm married to my wife for sixty three years black woman but we teach honor love and respect for all women so i just want to dispel that right now without you we don't exist professors you know i would hope you're here you know because you've been saying so much about me i'm  i said that's fine you couldn't have given me a better but i understand that the ropes and sent to here gave one hundred dollars no you didn't come to me but it came to them an alpha phi alpha that they could get fly and do the things they got all of you sitting in these seats and i am so honored represent my brother paul ropes and when you don't have the courage to put your name behind my presence in this i am your brother and i'm going to be your teacher for a minute or two right but how would we review in strong terms any of you that  you don't know paul robeson or you so that bank you for giving me paul robeson as my subject because paul robeson is one of the greatest heroes in in my life along with so many others but i want to talk to you about him thank you brothers please give him a hand one of the things that mr ropes and i was taught by his father who gave a perfect example of being loyal to your convictions believing in what you believe and standing up for what you believe the only time you have a right to change is when you should never be afraid to hear ideas coming from someone else because you are intelligent that's why you're here you're able to discern it what people are saying if there is truth in it well if it's follow it's oh so when a college is afraid to have a man like me come on the campus and spread all kinds of rumors about the person of brother farrakhan that make you fear me now when they invite you to college or as they invited paul here and gave him a scholarship and some of us they were that's great you know the kind of scholarship white people don't give you things where they don't expect something in return yeah yeah yeah oh yeah i can prove it i don't have to and tie those kinds of things that make a human being less then the capability that human being potentially can achieve if that's what i meant  teacher masta father of mohammed who's the founder of the nation of islam is as white as any white person that's here although he was half original his father was black his mother was white wrong and these are the people that your teache and some of you that are professes it's a great job but you never let a job keep you from being honest to your students so when you've got a job and you have to act a certain way see paul ropes and was like that in his young years you know growing up in princeton new jersey which is a total white under his father his father was a beautiful past yeah he was a m e o but he didn't stay in the white church something about christianity with white folks that blacks were kitchen hair out from the people who teach you about the love of jesus christ since father left and came to the amy zion church which was a black church and that's why you never first baptist you second back because when you was a first baptist you were a catch and held under the white baptists that brought you into not the religion of jesus christ they brought you into their version of his religion let's get it all would like to see it all you don't kid to see he said you don't make white people afraid even if what you're fighting for you get you act like you're grateful thank you ball they put you through and he was tall and black strong he was a scholar if he got ninety five he was in his exam he was upset because a hundred is what you could get even though he came close he didn't like being close as he wanted to get what was the how about you is this a party scene for you i mean i hear that you all have great parties when your party i don't i don't really know i keep my ear to the ground and i hear that you all love to party now potting is not necessarily bad but today's college students the party in a way where there's and i inhaled i used to sing in the night clubs and sometime i be so high i couldn't remember whether i had done a chorus and a half or just one quote wrist of the song numb is true so i didn't like that feeling of not being in thank you for telling me to talk to the students about paul he didn't he didn't use drugs we who wake up in our conscious we high all the time i didn't come here looking to get high i was high before i got here something is going down now my mexican family do do you feel it my native american family do you feel it in your own way people who want to go different from their fathers do you feel now this seven in the bible for young white people that i want to just put on your table to think about if you read his work yet you have you have not tell the truth i've invented certain disabuse white people of thinking that they would have for us here we were already here had been right and if you travel like van certainly did to mexico and central south america you see pyramid you see the wisdom of the original man all in the western hemisphere show when you get when white folk came they discovered america like a child you know who's learning to crawl i hope i'm not making you angry i'm just telling the truth i don't mean to upset any of you but if you get upset is it because your present views are being al me they don't why don't they celebrate him because he'll break you out of the prison of ignorance thinking that you came out to africa with bones paul's father told him that integrity is more important than the amassing of material well what do they tell you as your motive for coming to college it's already corrupted before you get here because first of all the education is rooted in white supremacy no no no you don't have to applause i just want you to think with me if it were not rooted in white supremacy why don't you know the origin of civilization  on why didn't they tell you that civilization started with the black man why didn't they tell you that because they don't want you to know the real truth of who you are yes because you don't know who you are because once you know who you are then you can be yourself but right now you're struggling to find yourself so you everything  prophet mohammed was the latest exponent of a religion that has no no no no i just want you to think man i mean come with no no i just want to talk  islam is the nature of god and the nature in which he created man and created the universe well then what is this law going to be i never heard nothing about it you know why folk are not go tell you about your natural religion they made you into christians and they found it not incompatible that you should be a christian and a slave at the same time  we were new men loud to read and if white folks some of them began to teach us how to read they would be punished for how do you take a people from reading  i'm not here to play with you and i don't need acceptance i just want us to know the truth yes yes for three hundred years we would denied the right to read to know think about that it's a long time to be devoid of the material of reading and even when the western hemisphere was being came they destroyed their libraries and when we did learn to read they had specific things they wanted us to read and number one was the bible and not the whole bible but certain parts of the  i don't have time to go into the proper context of loving your enemy but just say it anyway i have a lot of enemies not enemies because they  you are my enemy you don't really you're not really an enemy but if you don't like it's because of the propaganda that you heard that turned your mind against me before i could come and speak to you because they really didn't want you to be here yet that's why would they charge you all ten thousand dollars  we search everybody when we go we don't need police we've never had an incident we've been teaching thousands and thousands of people we don't need nobody  here so my loving you makes me not feel the pain of your insult as much and it doesn't stop me from continuing to teach you i didn't pay them say these things how many of you brothers and sisters that know me have seen me go and help people that have said awful things and do an awful why do i do that because i love you and i'm not going to let your ignorance  somebody does something that you don't like i'm not talking to that would be paul was a kind hearted brother he knew the manners that would make him move in white society he had a principle over here in somerville think that high school was the name of that high school he went to you don't even know but the killed that white principal he never acknowledged paul paul did all of that coming through the same things you all come through how many of you been insulted just trying to be greeted what you do would you raise your hand please how many of you have felt the sting of envy from  who see your talent your of realty and hate you for your talent may i see you hang it wasn't most of that from some of your own people bob right where did jesus say the kingdom was here jesus say they were ask him about the kingdom he said the kingdom is within you say wow if the kingdom of heaven is within us why is so much hell coming up out of heaven had nothing to do with color we as big a devil to each other as the devil you don't get character in college right but what is the basis of character the basis of good character is honesty and once you start lying to yourself your character building stops  so paul robeson learned integrity and character from his parental upbringing and being a spiritual man he took the imperial knowledge but he based it on in take gritty and honesty and that is what caused him to suffer throughout his life by you willing to suffer to see your people free think about paul robeson in the thirty's and forty's paul was as big as michael jackson you know michael right you know you've heard of michael ever right you know how big michael was and is to us that's the way paul ropes and was in the late thirty's and he he was known as this great physical person but when he began to sing he was in august he was rooted in the culture of his people when he first started singing he never sang nothing but the songs written by black people though he went to high school and for four years he studied latin and i did too how many of you studied latin in school  so that's a formal education i studied latin i studied german i studied for it i studied spanish and my knowledge of latin helped to make me a great know of the english language you read about it some and because i was so good at what i did people think that when you're good at what you do and you gain fame and money by what you do you will never sacrifice that cause bigger than your vanity paul ropes and didn't care call and capra nick does not care they said well you know most athletes apolitical he said that's because they choose to be he said before me i want to make a difference how about you do you want to make a difference in your life and in the lives of your people as you grow in knowledge what do you think knowing they just fall is not to go out big and white folks for a job that's what they tell you if you stick only get a high school education decide how much money you go right but if you go to college this is how much money you'll be out there looking for a job and tell you you've got too much knowledge for this have you had that experience yet at the height of his career started speaking about the pain suffering of his people as long as he's and all of us can sing a little bit but paul sang a lot made a lot of money but when they saw paul robeson willing to sacrifice the gift that god had given him for a higher calling which was the liberation of his people that's when he couldn't get a job any more singing he all the theaters were owned by white folk and they shut him down so from over one hundred thousand dollars a year that he gained at the height of his career in the forty's he dropped down to six thousand dollars a year because question i'm asking you right because  willing to suffer to see a better day for yourself and your people what price are you willing to pay for the liberation that we see because it's not going to come easy back to the white students god has opened up a way for you to get out of the chastisement because every immigrant that came they built their future all on the pain and the nightmare of black life right now we don't have well of course you're a college student you haven't gone out into life's road yet but you've studied your mother right studied your father you studied your uncle somebody sacrificed to get you to rutgers and you owe it to those who sacrificed to make it easier for you that you don't come out of right because looking for a job you white people rich and powerful who wouldn't be when you had slaves working from can't see moaning to can't see a night for no pay not for one day not for one year but for three hundred and ten years we were chattel and one day paul was i think in harlem somewhere in a nightclub and a white person named ropes  came up to him and said you know mr ropes and your mother your grandmother is very proud of the work