Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ali concluded his lecture by reiterating the importance of purpose. 'When you find that purpose, nothing should stop you. In spite of all difficulties you should go ahead... You should go after that purpose at the sacrifice of everything; because when the sacrifice is great the gain in the end gives greater power and greater inspiration...
...Ali does not really lecture; he preaches. He aims primarily at the spirit as opposed to the intellect or the emotions. There's a strain of the old-fashioned Baptist wailer in him, yet it has been disciplined so that he is never out of control. His speech is well-modulated and understated without lending the impression that he is holding anything back. His high regard for Elijah Muhammad is well-evident in his lecture style without becoming an affectation. He presents himself as Ali, and Elijah Muhammad is an integral component of that identity...
After the lecture, Ali recited one of his poems, "Better Far," which he introduced as a "black militant freedom poem." The verse was about a young black from Mississippi who at age ten had seen a black man lynched by the Klan, and had later had "bad experiences with the worst of the whites." He had gone north to Brooklyn where he joined the Panthers, and at the time of the poem was involved with 49 other Panthers in a rooftop shoot-out against the police. After all the other Panthers had been either shot or had surrendered, he remained...
...Ali's inflection on the word "free" and earlier on "die" revealed the terminal nature which he seems to see in his own alternatives. This is reminiscent of the way Martin Luther King spoke towards the end of his life. Thus, it was a very appropriate way in which to end his formal presentation at B.U., the school at which King earned his doctorate...
...OUESTION and answer period followed Ali's poetry reading. The first question set the light tone that prevailed the rest of the night. A white student asked if Ali thought that the proposed Chamberlain bout would "be degrading to the art of boxing." Ali replied, "You go out on the street and find me just one black man who can't fight...