"If we were second class citizens we'd..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”

“Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.”

“The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.”

“Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.”

“People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are”

“Come hither, all ye empty things,Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;Who float upon the tide of state,Come hither, and behold your fate.Let pride be taught by this rebuke,How very mean a thing's a Duke;From all his ill-got honours flung,Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.”

“I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.”

“You've got to be taught to be afraidOf people whose eyes are oddly madeAnd people whose skin is a different shade.”

“Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.”