I Am Ali

584 00:37:23,783 --> 00:37:26,081 because they'd have negroes walking around the streets 585 00:37:26,202 --> 00:37:27,419 saying, "I'm the greatest." 586 00:38:25,929 --> 00:38:29,934 I could name you 20 activists 587 00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:35,565 that had a part in the change in this country. 588 00:38:35,688 --> 00:38:39,318 You were living in a state of discrimination and racism. 589 00:38:39,442 --> 00:38:43,948 And so there were the outstanding individuals who would risk everything. 590 00:38:44,072 --> 00:38:51,001 The Panthers took up arms. I mean, it was a time of people standing up 591 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,499 and other people cowering down. 592 00:38:54,624 --> 00:38:57,343 So there were a lot of individuals 593 00:38:57,460 --> 00:39:02,637 that were risking not only their careers, but their life. 594 00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:05,601 That was a time of... of social revolution. 595 00:39:07,554 --> 00:39:13,311 We are not seeking to lose our identity in blood mixing 596 00:39:13,434 --> 00:39:15,402 and our beautiful Black African history. 597 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,445 We don't hate you. We don't hate those of you who are white. 598 00:39:19,566 --> 00:39:24,322 We just wanna stay black. We love my color. I just love myself. 599 00:39:24,445 --> 00:39:30,293 I think that, on a personal level, I've been around him 600 00:39:30,410 --> 00:39:36,383 and there's a couple of things about him that I think are really beautiful. 601 00:39:36,499 --> 00:39:38,376 First of all, he loves people. 602 00:39:39,502 --> 00:39:44,383 I thought that was a great trait 603 00:39:44,507 --> 00:39:50,310 and he had a way of relating to people and making them feel good. 604 00:39:50,430 --> 00:39:51,430 And he used to say to me, 605 00:39:51,514 --> 00:39:54,563 "Come on, Jim, let's walk in the neighborhood and talk to the people." 606 00:39:54,684 --> 00:39:57,187 "Yeah, that's all right, I'll go with you." 607 00:39:57,312 --> 00:40:02,159 Meet the people, go into the barber shops. Go into the, uh, hair salons. 608 00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:05,154 And, uh, he didn't dislike white people. 609 00:40:06,905 --> 00:40:10,125 He just didn't like what a lot of white people stood for, 610 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:12,585 but when we went to England, he enjoyed the English. 611 00:40:12,702 --> 00:40:17,048 He would even party in my suite with the English people, 612 00:40:17,165 --> 00:40:19,008 particularly young ladies. 613 00:40:19,125 --> 00:40:24,598 But, uh... So his heart, and his compassion for people, 614 00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:30,392 was bigger than just black people and I think that's important to know. 615 00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:33,139 And then he had a lot of courage. 616 00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:37,269 The risk he had to take and then to be isolated, to have his crown taken away. 617 00:40:37,393 --> 00:40:41,614 Not be able to make a living. That was difficult. 618 00:40:43,191 --> 00:40:48,823 And to keep an attitude about himself, to keep that personality moving 619 00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:51,746 even though inside he had to be suffering a lot. 620 00:40:51,866 --> 00:40:55,211 REPORTER: Clay now faces a nomadic existence of uncertain duration 621 00:40:55,328 --> 00:40:59,049 divided between courthouses and meeting houses all over America. 622 00:40:59,165 --> 00:41:04,342 His occupation's gone. He seems unlikely to box again for a long time. 623 00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:07,966 Patriots deride him. The Peace Party applaud him. 624 00:41:08,091 --> 00:41:11,061 His Black Muslim friends keep him from faltering. 625 00:41:11,177 --> 00:41:13,555 It's doubtful whether he has the intellectual equipment 626 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,774 to evaluate these pressures, 627 00:41:15,890 --> 00:41:18,564 but under them all he keeps a dignity and repose 628 00:41:18,685 --> 00:41:22,610 which make it difficult to maintain that he's either cowardly or dishonest. 629 00:42:02,395 --> 00:42:04,944 KILROY: I hooked him up with a fella in New York City, 630 00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:06,862 and he had him doing the college lecturing 631 00:42:06,983 --> 00:42:09,532 and he went out on the college campuses 632 00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:12,997 and he did the lecturing and all the colleges loved him. 633 00:42:13,114 --> 00:42:17,415 He was accepted Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn. 634 00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:21,256 All of the schools, the bigger schools, and he was like their hero. 635 00:42:21,372 --> 00:42:22,749 (CHEERING) 636 00:42:31,424 --> 00:42:35,304 I'm very flattered in coming here, 637 00:42:35,428 --> 00:42:40,650 because you never could have made me believe years ago when I was a... 638 00:42:40,767 --> 00:42:43,611 When I got out of high school with a D minus average. 639 00:42:43,728 --> 00:42:45,446 (LAUGHTER