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of opportunity and equal membership in society; the longer the people are deprived the greater the manifestation of the one who is born out of that longing from a simple woman to answer that need, that cry, that prayer of those deprived who long.


In my last Minister Louis Farrakhan and Fidel Castro


many reasons Castro was revered by so many people both inside and outside of Cuba, The following are statements from some of the people who realized Castro's commitment to freedom for all.


Prime Minister of Canada Justin


Trudeau: “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President.


“Fidel Castro was a larger than


life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.


“While a controversial figure, both


Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”.


“I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba.


“On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”


U.S. President Barack Obama:


At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans - in Cuba and in the United States - with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual


lives, families, and of


the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.


For nearly six decades, the


relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political


disagreements.


During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends - bonds of family, culture, commerce, and common humanity. This engagement includes the contributions of Cuban Americans, who have done so much for our country and who care deeply about their loved ones in Cuba.


Today, we offer condolences to


Fidel Castro's family, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people. In the days ahead, they will recall the past and also look to the future. As they do, the Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.


Minister Louis Farrakhan: The


Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught me that there is a law in nature that whenever a people are deprived of that which God intends for that people to have such as freedom, justice, equality


have a little


Comandante Fidel Castro we were to


20-minutes


conversation it


over three-hours. lasted And in


the last 20-minutes I spoke to him about himself. I gave him the aforementioned


words saying that


he has been an answer to the prayers and the longing of people not only in Cuba, in the Caribbean and Central and South America but people all over the world who have longed for these natural rights that God intends for his creatures but they have been denied under slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism.


In answering the prayer of all he becomes a messenger of Allah; he became a messenger to All from the God of All to answer the critical needs of All.


And like Jesus who said he


came into the world that those who say they see may go blind and that those who are blind may see.


The


revolution that Jesus was to bring about would take those that were up and sit them down and those that were down and deprived would be raised up. Such a man was Fidel Castro. No wonder people hated him.


They


hated him because of their privileged position exercised over the Black and peasant class of Cuba, Central and South America—and the Black and peasant class of the world.


I said to him, dear brother we


all have to leave this earth at some time, physically we all will taste of death. I said, but you sir—there is no such thing as death for you that the ideas and the principles, universal principles,


and the


thought that you put in the people is the seminal fluid of the Kingdom of God on earth.


Brother Abdul Akbar Muhammad was with me and he saw tears come up in Comandante Fidel Castro’s eyes and I quoted to him from the Qur’an. “Speak not of those who die or are slain in the way of God as dead. They are alive but you perceive not.” The physical flesh and blood and bones of my brother are gone from us but the revolutionary


ideas and principles


that he lived are alive. They’re in the people that his revolution quickened to international consciousness.


And


those characteristics and principles are found all over our planet today among the poor and the oppressed and the weak. He lives! In my heart and in the heart of all of us who understand his role, he will never die.


Long live the memory of Fidel Castro.


Long live the Cuban people who have endured this savage blockade for over 50 years and have produced magnificent things in medicine, in science, in culture for the world to receive.


Long live the Cuban revolution.


And may we be on the side of those who admit that we were once blind but it’s our time to see as the confusion of Western heads of state and government is so clear that they are going blind. The confusion that exists in the Heads of State and government of the Western world will continue.


They


will continue to break apart as the poor, the weak, the Black, the Brown and the Red will continue to rise by the grace of Allah (God).


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media is considered a trusted window on the world by audiences across the nation. Her contributions to thoughtful reporting and civic discourse simply cannot be overstated. She often said that her job was to bring light rather than heat to issues of importance to our society.”


Television viewers may also


remember Ifill’s role in moderating two debates of candidates for vice president: between John Edwards and Richard Cheney in 2004, and between Sarah Palin and Joseph Biden in 2008.


She was born Sept. 29, 1955, in


New York, New York. In 1977, she graduated from Simmons College in


Boston, Massachusetts, with a


bachelor’s degree in communications. She worked for several newspapers, including The Washington Post and The New York Times.


In October 1999, she became a moderator of PBS’ “Washington Week in Review.”


Ifill also was the author of “The


Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” in 2009.


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