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Prejudice comes from being in the dark sunlight disinfects it.

Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
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Cassius Marcellus Clay
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Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.
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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.
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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.
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Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.
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In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
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I'm the fastest thing on two feet.
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My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.
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You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
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There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
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A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em
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Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.
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So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.
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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.
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If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
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My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.
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I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'
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I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
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