“You cannot find one synagogue I desecrated. You cannot find one Jewish person I have harmed, except I refuse to be silent when I know the truth. And it was Jesus who said you shall know the truth and the truth will set us free.”

—  Louis Farrakhan

Farrakhan speaks in Birmingham to support Voting Rights Act https://www.al.com/spotnews/2013/06/farrakhan_speaks_in_birmingham.html (14 June 2013)

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