Quote

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?

Muhammad Ali

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
Activist
Author
Autobiographer
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Louisville
Kentucky
Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Jr.
The Greatest
Rights
Drop
Uniform
Asks
Brown
Negro
Simple
Miles
Uniforms
Home
Treated
Bullets
Human
Ten
Vietnam
Humans
Dog
Denied
Like
Thousand
Bombs
People
Called
Dogs
Louisville

More quotes by Muhammad Ali

Image
There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches
Muhammad Ali
Image
Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones one is silver and the other's gold.
Muhammad Ali
Image
If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
Muhammad Ali
Image
The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
Muhammad Ali
Image
We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Prejudice comes from being in the dark sunlight disinfects it.
Muhammad Ali
Image
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
Muhammad Ali
Image
The sun is always shining someplace.
Muhammad Ali
Image
That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
Muhammad Ali
Image
If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
Muhammad Ali
Image
God works through people. It’s not me.
Muhammad Ali
Image
If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
Muhammad Ali
Image
No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.
Muhammad Ali
Image
We are stone enemies when the bell rings
Muhammad Ali
Image
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.
Muhammad Ali
Image
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali
Image
When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
Muhammad Ali