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Essay On Muhammad Ali

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When searching the Internet to see what people thought, said, and viewed Muhammad Ali, I was surprised how few negative statements I found. No one said he was a god, but, he was admired for his stance on issues and concerns he felt were important. He spoke out on social, religious, and political issues in such a manner that it freighted and rankled the sensibilities of many Americans, both black and white. Watching the film, I could not help but remember how I felt about Ali in those early days, often wondering why he had not been killed, or maybe he is a little too outspoken, or if he was asking the white establishment to make social and political changes a little to fast, for him to slow it down. But, he did make me feel good as said by Maya Angelou. …show more content…

But he was more than the sum of his athletic gifts. An agile mind, a buoyant personality, a brash self-confidence and an evolving set of personal convictions fostered a magnetism that the ring alone could not contain. He entertained as much with his mouth as with his fists, narrating his life with a patter of inventive doggerel. (“Me! Wheeeeee!” Ali was as polarizing a superstar as the sports world has ever produced — both admired and vilified in the 1960s and ’70s for his religious, political and social stances. Loved or hated, he remained for 50 years one of the most recognizable people on the planet. In later life Ali became something of a secular saint, a legend in soft focus. He was respected for having sacrificed more than three years of his boxing prime and untold millions of dollars for his antiwar principles after being banished from the ring; he was extolled for his un-self-conscious gallantry in the face of incurable illness, and he was beloved for his accommodating sweetness in

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