"Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.”

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”

“If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.”

“Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.”

“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.”

“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.”

“One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.”