Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., in 1942, and raised in segregated Louisville.
But in the ring, Ali remained devastating, dispatching one challenger after another.
I aint got no quarrel with them Viet Cong, he famously said.
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To root for Frazier or Ali said more about a fans politics than anything related to actual boxing.
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us, wrote Hunter S. Thompson.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me, Ali once said.
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It would be a better world.
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