Social Activist Quotes

“My main fight is for freedom and equality.”

“I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.”

“There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.”

“No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.”

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”

“I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.”

“I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.”

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

“White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.”

“If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.”

“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”

“I don't have to be what you want me to be.”

“When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.”

“I shook up the world.”

“Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.”

“Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?”

“I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.”

“I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.”

“Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.”

“I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.”

“I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me”

“When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.”

“During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.”

“Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.”

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”