"Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan."

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Source : "Let's not Pretend Ali was Gandhi". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 04, 2002.

Floyd Patterson

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“It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.”
“I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.”
“The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.”

Source : Margaret George (2010). “Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles: A Novel”, p.832, Macmillan
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.”
“Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.”

Source : Red Auerbach, Joe Fitzgerald (1986). “On and Off the Court”, Bantam
“I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.”
“Housework can kill you if done right.”
“Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.”

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