"Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer."
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"You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves."
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"I didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything."
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"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."
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"I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability."
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"I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK."
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"Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward."
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"The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith."
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"Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times"
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"I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble."
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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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"I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble."
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"That's okay, I'm still the Greatest."
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"Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!"
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"I said I was the greatest, not the smartest."
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"Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!"
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"I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood."
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"A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em"
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"I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace."
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"Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one."
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