"All black Americans have slave names. They..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“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.”

“Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.”

“Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.”

“I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.”

“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.”