To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the USA, I won the gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'
— Muhammad Ali Modern

Boxer, activist, greatest of all time

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Poem after winning Olympic gold

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1960

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2012/07/27/157529402/ali-the-poet-who-talk…

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