Muhammad Ali Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Names, White

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1977.

• America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lynching, Earthquakes, America

  "This is the Legend of Muhammad Ali, the Greatest Fighter That Ever Will Be". Interview, www.playboy.com. June 3, 2016.

• Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, War, Fighting

• When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Names, White

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2016.

• I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

  Muhammad Ali

  Teacher, Religious, Mean

  Source: thefederalist.com

• All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Names, White, Black

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2016.

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