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A Rooster Crows Only When It Sees The Light. Put Him In The Dark And He'll Never Crow. I Have Seen The Light And I'm Crowing.

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A Rooster Crows Only When It Sees The Light. Put Him In The Dark And He'll Never Crow. I Have Seen The Light And I'm Crowing.

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If Some Black Man Go Out And Start Something, A Riot Or Something Or, I'm Not Going To Jump In It And Get Killed Because He's Gone Out And Started Something I Don't Believe In What He's Fighting For Or His Approach.

Success Is Not Achieved By Winning All The Time. Real Success Comes When We Rise After We Fall. Some Mountains Are Higher Than Others. Some Roads Steeper Than The Next. There Are Hardships And Setbacks But You Cannot Let Them Stop You. Even On The Steepest Road You Must Not Turn Back.

A Lot Of Wars Are Fought Between Black And Whites Daily In America. But If It's Something I Want To Be With, The People Who Started It Were Black, I Wouldn't Not Get In It.

Black And White

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The World’s Champ Should Be Pretty Like Me!

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I Would Like To Say That I Am Not An Apostle Of The Muslim Religion.

Muslim Religion

When A Man Says I Cannot, He Has Made A Suggestion To Himself. He Has Weakened His Power Of Accomplishing That Which Otherwise Would Have Been Accomplished.

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Frank Sinatra Told Floyd Paterson How He Should Whoop Me. Frank Sinatra.

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What's Really Hurting Me, The Name Islam Is Involved, And Muslim Is Involved And Causing Trouble And Starting Hate And Violence. ... Islam Is Not A Killer Religion. ... Islam Means Peace, I Couldn't Just Sit Home And Watch People Label Muslims As The Reason For This Problem.

Many People Are Quick To Say That We Are Not Recognized By Muslims In The East . And I Start With The Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, He Went Throughout The Holy City Of Mecca To Dine And Wine With Gamal Abdel Nasser Of Egypt And All Of The Black, Mainly The Rulers Of The Islamic Countries.

There Are Billions Of People In The World, And Every One Of Them Is Special. No One Else In The World Is Like You.

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I Came Back To Louisville After The Olympics With My Shiny Gold Medal. Went Into A Luncheonette Where Black Folks Couldn't Eat. Thought I'd Put Them On The Spot. I Sat Down And Asked For A Meal. The Olympic Champion Wearing His Gold Medal. They Said, "we Don't Serve Niggers Here." I Said, "that's Okay, I Don't Eat 'em." But They Put Me Out In The Street. So I Went Down To The River, The Ohio River, And Threw My Gold Medal In It.

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Wisdom Is Knowing When You Can't Be Wise.

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