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Women Are Not Equal With Men, That's Sure. When The Woman Is In Danger She Always Looks To The Man For Help. We Are Superior By Nature. The Black Or White Woman Needn't Worry In Life Because The World Is Ruled By The White Man.

-Muhammad Ali

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Women Are Not Equal

Muhammad Ali

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Women Are Not Equal With Men, That's Sure. When The Woman Is In Danger She Always Looks To The Man For Help. We Are Superior By Nature. The Black Or White Woman Needn't Worry In Life Because The World Is Ruled By The White Man.

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The Man Of Least Capacity Is The One Who Shows Himself Incapable Of Self-correction.

So Now I'm Going To Forget The 400 Years Of Lynching And Killing Raping And Depriving My People Feeding Of Justice And Equality And The Lowest Of Low Last Respect And I'm Going To Look At Two Or Three White People Who Are Trying To Do Right And Don't See The Other Million Who Are Trying To Kill Me? I'm Not That Big Of A Fool.

During My Boxing Career, You Did Not See The Real Muhammad Ali. You Just Saw A Little Boxing And A Little Showmanship. It Was After I Retired From Boxing That My True Work Began.

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Hana, Everything That God Made Valuable In The World Is Covered And Hard To Get To. Where Do You Find Diamonds? Deep Down In The Ground, Covered And Protected. Where Do You Find Pearls? Deep Down At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Covered Up And Protected In A Beautiful Shell. Where Do You Find Gold? Way Down In The Mine, Covered Over With Layers And Layers Of Rock. You've Got To Work Hard To Get To Them.

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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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Mr. President, I've Been A Citizen Of The United States Of America For Thirty Three Years And Was Never Invited To The White House. It Sure Gives Me Pleasure To Be Invited To The Black House.

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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.

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There's Nothing Stressful About Turning 50 Except People Reminding You About It.

I Am The Astronaut Of Boxing. Joe Louis And Dempsey Were Just Jet Pilots. I'm In A World Of My Own.

If You Wonder What The Difference Between Them And Me Is, I'll Break The News: You Never Heard Of Them. Most Of Them ... Can Fight Almost As Good As I Can. I'm Just Saying You Never Heard Of Them.

I Hated The Sight On Tv Of Big, Clumsy, Lumbering Heavyweights Plodding, Stalking Each Other Like Two Frankenstein Monsters, Clinging, Slugging Toe To Toe. I Knew I Could Do It Better ... Circle, Dance, Shuffle, Hit And Move ... Make An Art Out Of It.

Once We Realize We Are All Members Of Humanity, We Will Want To Compete In The Spirit Of Love

I Know Where I'm Going And I Know The Truth, And I Don't Have To Be What You Want Me To Be. I'm Free To Be What I Want.

I'm Sad Because I Want To Bow Out Of My Race And Leave My Beautiful Identity? Chinese Love Chinese. They Love Their Little Slant Eyed, Pale Brown Skinned Babies. Pakistanis Love Their Culture.jewish People Love Their Culture. A Lot Of Catholics Want To Marry Catholics Because The Want Their Religion To Stay The Same.

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I Predict That This Will Be The Greatest Book Ever And It Will Sell More Than Any Other Book In History

People Don't Realise What They Had Till It's Gone. Like President Kennedy - Nobody Like Him. Like The Beatles, There Will Never Be Anything Like Them. Like My Man, Elvis Presley - I Was The Elvis Of Boxing.

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Dare To Be Great

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I Used To Ask My Brother Rudy To Throw Rocks At Me. I'd Dodge Every One. That's How I Learned How To Bob And Weave: Ducking Rocks.

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You Can Be Free. You Can Be Black. Look At Me! I'm The Heavyweight Champion! Can't Nobody Stop Me.

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Oh! How The Hours Hasten To Change Into Days, The Days Into Months, The Months Into Years, And Those Into Life's Annihilation!

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