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I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a man without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

Louis Farrakhan

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Louis Farrakhan
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 11
American Political Leader
Anti-Vaccine Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Journalist
Muslim Minister
Politician
Religious
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Violinist
The Bronx
New York City
Louis Farrakhan Muhammad
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Louis Eugene Wolcott
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