"I am the greatest! I shook up the world! I don't have a mark on my face! I'm pretty! I'm a bad man! You must listen to me! I can't be beat!... I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived!" Muhammad Ali

Why does everybody attack me for being righteous? What it boils down to is a matter of fear. Do I fear the almighty government more, or do I fear God? I fear God more. If I had to give up my fighting or my religion, I already know what I would do. I would give up boxing and never look back. No Vietcong ever called me a nigger. I am not going to war. Every day they die in Vietnam for nothing. I might as well stay right here for something! If going to war - and possibly dying - would help twenty-two million Negroes gain freedom, justice, and equality, I would not have to be drafted. I would join tomorrow. I want peace, and I do not find peace in a segregated world. I love to be black, and I love to be with my people. I don't have to be what anyone else wants me to be. I am free to be who I want to be... Muhammad Ali