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All black Americans have slave names. They have white names names that the slave master has given to them.

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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
Activist
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Autobiographer
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Louisville
Kentucky
Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay
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The Greatest
Black
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Slave
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Americans
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It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
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You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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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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I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. I shook up the world! I want justice...
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Shut up, I know what I'm doing!
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The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves
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Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.
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In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first
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Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.
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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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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.
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Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
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Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
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I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.
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