On the anniversary of Muhammad Ali's death, we remember how one of the greatest athletes of all time took a stand for civil rights and trailblazed for Muslim-Americans.
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00:00Who's the man? I give you one more chance. Who's the man? You are!
00:14Our bedroom was here.
00:30As we say throughout the Muslim world, some 600 million of us say daily that I put my prayers in our prayers.
00:56As we say my prayers, my sacrifices, my life and my death are all for Allah.
01:26I'm not going to help nobody get something my Negroes don't have. If I'm going to die, I'll die now, right here fighting you.
01:42My name is a white people, not Vietcongs or Chinese or Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom.
01:48You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality.
01:51You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs and you want me to go somewhere and fight.
01:56But you won't even stand up for me here at home.
01:58If I thought that going to war would be instrumental in helping 22 million so-called Negroes first receive their freedom just as inequality.
02:22If I thought going to war would help my people receive their freedom just as inequality, you wouldn't have to draft me. I'll go tomorrow.
02:40You can deny the draft on any grounds, but you'll have to go to court. It's law. If you lose, you go to jail, which I said I do. I'm not fighting legal.
02:51Ali fights great. He's got speed and endurance. If you sign to fight him, increase your insurance.
03:21I tell the press that it might be my last fight because I want to keep my title eight more months. I don't want to give it away. Don't worry about it. I'm not going to fight no more, but I'm not going to retire. I'm not going to fight no more, but I might fight again.
03:51I'm not going to retire. I'm not going to fight again.
04:21My father loves people and people love my father and I learned that at a very
04:26young age as people would always come up to him no matter where we went.
04:30My father has always lived his life to make this world better for others.
04:38I don't have no regrets, nor am I angry at any of the boxing officials or authorities
04:53who did what they thought was right when they took the title because of my reasons on draft
04:58and religion and I did what I thought was right so I have no regrets at all.