Latest Quotes

“If your love for me requires that I hide parts of who I am, then you don't love me. Love is never a request for silence.”

— Deray Mckesson, via twitter.com

“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”

— Muhammad Ali, via Tumblr

“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”

— Muhammad Ali, via Tumblr

“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”

— Muhammad Ali, via Tumblr

“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”

— Muhammad Ali, via Tumblr

“When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, he said that Muhammad Ali gave him hope that the walls would some day come tumbling down.”

— Dave Zirin, ‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 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? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor…”

— Muhammad Ali, via Tumblr

“I have wrestled with an alligator I done tussled with a whale I done handcuffed lighting Thrown thunder in jail Only last week, I murdered a rock Injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

— Muhammad Ali (transcribed by Mark McClusky), The Death of the Champ: Muhammad Ali, 1942 - 2016

“Sensitive souls don’t have it easy in this cruel world. They feel like their souls are getting trampled on in so many ways. That’s why you see their eyes light up when they can caress a face or an animal, or breathe in the scent of a flower.”

— Sereno Sky, Lonely Traveller

“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”

— Muhammad Ali, via Tumblr

“You have taken your place in the long line of those before you whose continued survival in the face of overwhelming threats should inspire you every day of your lives -- every day. I’m talking about many of your ancestors who came together to lead a revolt, risking their lives to preserve their trad…”

— Michelle Obama, Santa Fe Indian School Graduation Speech

“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world... True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion... We as Muslims have to stand up to those who…”

— Muhammad Ali, Responds to terror attacks

“Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a mountain made of gold; for gold is cold & lifeless - it can neither see nor hear, in time of trouble its powerless to cheer — it has no ears to listen, no heart to understand, it cannot bring you comfo…”

— Muhammad Ali, On Friendship

“I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willlingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stired it up well, then he spreads…”

— Muhammad Ali, Responds to question "What would you like people to think about you when you've gone?"

“Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. [...] I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.”

— Muhammad Ali, Responds to the 9/11 attacks

“We don't hate white people. We know white people. We know the history of white people. If a tiger broke into this room right now, I'd beat you getting out. If a rattlesnake broke in, I'd beat you getting off of this stage. I don't hate rattlesnakes, I don't hate tigers, I just know I can't get along…”

— Muhammad Ali, On race

“They've never had a Black man stand up and identify with the struggle of his people.”

— Muhammad Ali, Talking about the fall of his boxing career

“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”

— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Well, Black people have actually been in jail for four-hundred years here in America. But I don't worry about jail, I believe in Allah, I believe in Elijah Muhammad — as the messenger of god —and many great men have had to go to jail. So I don't pay attention to it. If the time comes, I'll have to g…”

— Muhammad Ali, Responds to the prospect of going to jail

“Every day these messages shaped the images that I and other nonwhite children had of ourselves. I didn’t know how, but I knew that I was going to help my people. Somehow, I was going to make a difference in the world. The more injustice that I saw, the stronger my feelings grew. It made me feel that…”

— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey