"Why should they ask me to put..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
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“I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.”
“I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”
“Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.”
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“There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.”
“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
“Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.”
More on Racism
“Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.”
“If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.”
“The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.”