Muhammad Ali — "To make America the greatest country in the world, what you have to do is you ha…"
To make America the greatest country in the world, what you have to do is you have to kill all the white people.
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Statement made in a 1968 interview with Playboy, later clarified as rhetorical by Ali and his biographers, reflecting early Nation of Islam rhetoric.
Date: 1968
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