Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the goals men set for themselves need not be of Olympic proportions, Ali discriminates them from the desire "to secure some rank, position or pleasure they covet at the moment... Some of you fells are probably unhappy because there's some woman that you want that don't want you-(laughter and applause)-same with you ladies. How many of you saw a girl that made you say, 'boy, ain't she beautiful. If I could only make her mine, if I could win her love, that's all I need...' And as soon...
...part of the lecture that drew the longest sustained audience response, Ali spoke of what had been his own original "purpose in life...
...Rocky Marciano defend his title when I was a little boy. On the radio the man said. 'And still the Heavyweight Champion of the World, Rocky Marciano.' I rode off in the rain that night on my bicycle... and I said, 'Just think the champion of the whole world. (Ali snapped his fingers) He can whip every man in Russia-(laughter and applause)-every man in China.... The champion of the whole world. And my purpose at 11-years-old was to win that world heavyweight title. And not only to win the world heavyweight title...
...applause was loud with many people standing. Ali did not wait for it to stop, but continued in a lower voice...
Returning to his core topic, Ali indicated that there has been a general failure on the part of the institutions of this country to aid the individual in his discovering of his purpose in life. Most institutions have been counter-productive, hindering the individual from finding his purpose by wasting his time in meaningless actions. Although this problem is now reaching epidemic proportions within the white community, it has long been virtually pandemic among black Americans. However, "There is a man in America named Elijah Muhammad. His followers are called Muslims. Not even one per cent of the black people...