Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, född Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr den 17 januari 1942 i Louisville, Kentucky, USA, avliden 3 juni 2016 i Scottsdale, Arizona. Även känd under namnet Cassius X. Författare av boken The soul of a butterfly: reflections on life's journey (2004).
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Världsmästare i boxning
Muhammad Ali var mest känd som professionell boxare och flerfaldig världsmästare i tungvikt, men också som vapenvägrare och konvertit till islam. Ali räknas som en av alla tiders främsta boxare, samt en av tidernas största och mest kända idrottsmän. Ali försvarade tungviktstiteln 19 gånger totalt.
Muhammad Ali - en nationalist
Ali konverterade till islam och stödde den nationalistiska organisationen Nation of Islam. I ett uppmärksammat tal propagerade även Ali emot rasblandning då han ville att den svarta rasen skulle vara "ren".
Utvalda citat
| “ | "We are not seeking to loose our identity in blood mixing and our beautiful black african history." | ” |
| “ | "Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God that has never been told to our people. He teaches us that God beautified the planet by separating everybody for themselves, chinese in China, englishmen in England, puerto ricans in Puerto Rico, ethiopians in Ethiopia, arabians in Arabia, egyptians in Egypt, and the americans stole their country and they stoled us and you will always have chaos and trouble." | ” |
—Parkinson, november 1971 | ||
| “ | "It´s natural to want to be with your own. Bluebirds fly with bluebirds, pigeons want to be with pigeons, eagles want to be with eagles. They are all birds, but they want to be with birds like themselves. In nature, all the animals stick together with their own kind, so why didn´t we stick together?." | ” |
—The soul of a butterfly (Sid. 66) | ||
| “ | "Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when White people didn´t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into White people´s neighborhoods?." | ” |
—The soul of a butterfly (Sid. 66) | ||
| “ | "Even my own name, Cassius Marcellus Clay, wasn´t really my own. Cassius Marcellus Clay was a White man from Kentucky who owned slaves. So, I was named after a slave owner, and to me my name represented hunders of years of injustice and enslavement." | ” |
—The soul of a butterfly (Sid. 64) | ||
