"All black Americans have slave names. They..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
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“My principles are more important than the money or my title.”
“I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.”
“Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.”
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“Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.”
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
“A man in debt is so far a slave.”