Muhammad Ali Quotes

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

Muhammad Ali

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• Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Beautiful
  • Tree
  • Uniform

• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Expectation

• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Money
  • Human Rights

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Feel
  • Soldier
  • Uniform

• The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Kids
  • Design

• When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Accept
  • Uniform
  • Inhibitions

• Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Beautiful
  • Moments
  • Creativity

• I come home from work, and depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate or play guitar or watch some 'Monty Python.'

  

  Brent Sexton
  • Work
  • Home

• It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Human Rights

• The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Situation

• I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Music
  • Home
  • Happy

• There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Die

• Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Truth
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Time
  • House
  • Small

• You can buy a mobile phone which can fire up to four bullets. Handy to have if you’re a psycho.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Bullets
  • Psycho
  • Mobile Phones

• In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Human Rights
  • Uniform
  • Bullets