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The Table Talks Project is an oral history initiative that seeks to preserve our shared stories and promote community-led research, preservation, and documentation of our shared heritage.

'Table Talk' is a form of literature or memoir in which a collector (biographer, archivist, colleague, friend, etc.) records impromptu comments by notable leaders or influential people (made generally at the dining table or in small gatherings), in anticipation of their lasting significance.

Transcript:
October 14, 1973

HEM: Who will go for us and who shall we send? Searching
the heavens for a man to come...to save us....That's
somethin'....A lil' fellow happened to be standing by and
he heard it....He said, "Here am I--send me.".... That's a
great thing when you think about it. He heard the call for
someone to go.... To take the job...to defend the nation.
He said, "Though I am among an unclean people." He
said, But send me; I'll go."... And so the Lord He heard a
man saying he will go. So He said take a pair of tongs...
and take a coal from off the altar... put it on his tongue.
Told him go ye shall; think over that. The little man said,
"Yes." So he got his mission...to go. He didn't deny it. He
went.... Nobody could fit the job but himself.
Brother: I don't know where we would be today Dear
Apostle if you didn't fit that description. I can't hardly
imagine where we would be today.
HEM: As many people that there is here, he told me out
his own mouth, He said "You was the only one, that I
found that fitted the job. Then...when He asked me that,
He said, "Are you with Me to set our people on top of
civilization. I said, "You'll back me?" He laughed and
smiled and He said. "Brother, I'm with you." ...So three
years and near a half, He stayed with me, taught me
night and day... and here I am... fighting with the job...
conquering it. They say they're scared, scared of what?
There is nothing to be afraid of.

~ The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Table Talks, The Transcripts: Volume One pg. 15 (October 14, 1973)

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