Social Activist Quotes

“Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.”

“The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.”

“War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.”

“I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.”

“I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.”

“I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history”

“I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.”

“If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.”

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

“You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.”

“Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.”

“Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!”

“I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.”

“Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.”

“It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.”

“Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.”

“Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.”

“I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.”

“Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

“No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.”

“No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.”

“All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking”

“Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions”

“You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job”

“In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away”