Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muhammad Ali, nee Cassins Clay, alias Louisville Lip, will speak tonight at 8:30 p. m. in the IAB. The speech, sponsored by the Harvard Speakers Forum, is one of many Ali has been making since the "Fight of the Century...
...introduced by Richie Taylor, a B.U. student and the school's first Rhodes Scholar who said, "To know that Muhammad Ali is only a boxer is not to know him at all, for the man before us tonight represents more than physical perfection. He embodies all the mental and cultural strength of all people of color that exist in the world." Taylor concluded by alluding to Huey Newton's statement that "it's not imperative that he [Ali] win the fight in the ring, but that he continue to win the fight in the universe...
...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 in American follow Elijah Muhammad. And out of all the 30 million black people in America-take your Urban League, your NAACP, your CORE, take all your black power groups, and they don't match...
...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...
...Muhammad Ali is as complete as a man as he is a fighter. Secure and serious in the pursuit of his "purpose in life," his strength, courage and conviction recall to mind Paul Robeson, the hugely talented black singer who parried the assaults that a demi-world of small men thrust at him because of his beliefs. Like Robeson, Ali possesses a majestic grace that allows him to thrive when it is expected he will crumble. Seven years ago when he fulfilled that initial purpose of his life by winning the championship, he said, "I'm free...