Some Famous Quotes from Muhammad Ali
- I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.
- I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
- My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father… Shoot them for what? …How can I shoot them poor people, just take me to jail.
- Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
- Ain’t no Vietcong ever called me nigger.
- I’m saying, you talking about some draft, and all of you white boys are breaking your neck to get to Switzerland and Canada and London…I’m not gonna help nobody get something my negroes don’t have. If I’m gonna die, I’ll die right here fighting you, if I’m gonna die. You my enemy. My enemies are white people, not Viet Congs or Chinese or Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. You won’t even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.
- Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
- Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name—it means beloved of God—and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me.
The aforementioned quotes were taken from the featured video Like It Is – YouTube Clip and The Bleacher Report