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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402136" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ali.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Growing up into the'deep south'way, <br>Black and White, no grey.! ! <br>‘Know your place'every day, <br>No change, things just stay.! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across his path, came the noble art, <br>Latent passion and talent inside.<br>The strength of mind and heart, <br>Convention could and would be defied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The champion he would fight, <br>Against all the odds.<br>He won against Liston that night, <br>Was his fate in the'Lap of the Gods'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Islam growing in his mind, <br>A ‘change'of name.<br>His future is signed, <br>He felt no shame.<br>From that day, <br>The name 'Clay' was history, <br>No longer 'Clay'.! <br>Only 'Mohammed Ali.'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ridiculed and demonized, <br>Endless pressure and torment..<br>Undermined and patronised, <br>His pride and resolve, they could not dent.<br>66'year of the draft, Ali protests about, <br>Uncle Sam made his stand.<br>Ali was outside the‘age drought'! <br>Their plan didn't go as planned.<br>Ali, they had much underrated, <br>A blow they would deal.<br>His conviction cannot be over-stated, <br>Place in history, he would seal. <br>A reporter asked him, ' What did he think of the‘Viet Cong', <br>Ali replied, 'No‘Viet Cong', ever called me a‘Nigger.' '<br>He remained resolute and strong, <br>The story just got bigger.! <br>His title, they would threaten to remove, <br>His reputation was at stake.<br>Action they would prove, <br>However his defiance and dignity would not break.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Government against him all the way, <br>Pressure still growing.<br>But he kept them at bay, <br>No giving in, no bowing.<br>He was still the champ, <br>Speaking his mind.<br>Authorities unable to clamp, <br>A reason they'd have to find.! <br>They would have their day, <br>Try every bloody trick.<br>They would win, wouldn't they, ? <br>To their‘plan'they'd stick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Illegal, unjust and immoral, <br>What they did was wrong.<br>Their‘last resort'totally indefensible.<br>Ali's fight would go on.<br>His refusal of the draft, <br>Fine and imprisonment.<br>Restriction of his craft, <br>Got their'way'message they sent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So eventually they would de throne, <br>Three years not in the ring.<br>Public support had grown, <br>Exoneration, time would bring. <br>Over three years without his art, <br>Was a long, long time.<br>Outside, not being a part, <br>What would have been his‘prime'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finally vindicated, <br>Won his Supreme Court appeal, <br>Once again liberated, <br>Three and half years they did 'steal'.<br>Principles he'd stick to, <br>He took all the flack.<br>His resolve got him through, <br>He wanted his title back.<br>71' sentence was overturned, <br>Ali had eventually won.<br>Three and half years they had ‘burned'.<br>But justice was done.<br>His comeback, the Frazier bout, <br>Rusty, three years‘out'to blame.<br>However no doubt, <br>Ali would reaffirm his name.<br> <br>So Frazier out, Forman in, <br>For the next 'rumble'.<br>Ali's belief within, <br>Next up was 'Rumble in the jungle.'<br>Underdog, it must be said, <br>Money men behind the scene.<br>Point to prove in his head, <br>Mr.King only sees green.! <br>The World was looking on, <br>Time to deliver, to do.<br>Was this to be his ‘swan song'? <br>Would the crowd and his faith get him through? <br>Yes, Ali, Zaire on his side, <br>The press he would call.<br>For his ‘cause', he never did hide, <br>His confidence would not stall.<br>The fight commences, sweltering heat, <br>Pugilists toe to toe.<br>Win or face defeat, <br>Fascinating duel, blow by blow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is that all you got? 'Is that it'? Ali would say, <br>He would taunt through similar sounds.<br>Keeping his‘enemy'at bay, <br>Using ‘dope ‘a' rope' though the rounds.<br>His foes energy getting sapped, <br>Frazier's will also giving now.<br>Ali seems relatively‘intact', <br>Absorbing the blows some how.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Victory for the greatest, <br>Third time, a champion.<br>He beat every trial and test, <br>His legacy continues on.<br>So what did he leave behind? <br>Although not yet‘gone'! <br>Something in the mind, <br>Something so strong, <br>Of principles, making a stand.<br>Freedom of choice, <br>Nothing grand, <br>Expressing opinion, via voice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fight for what you feel is right, <br>Is what he tried to say.<br>Never ever give up the fight.<br>His life would portray.<br>What a courageous man, yes had his flaws, <br>Yes brash, bold, outspoken.<br>Faults yet again, who hasn't behind closed doors, ! ! <br>Ultimately his spirit was never broken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of the greatest sportsmen, <br>Bar none to ever live.<br>Everything he had given, <br>Everything he did give.<br>He took on the establishment, <br>Questioned authority.<br>A message he really sent, <br>To all of us really.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">23/11/11</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Guy+Lipmore">Guy Lipmore</a><div class=q>
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Black and White, no grey.! ! 
‘Know your place'every day, 
No change, things just stay.! 

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Latent passion and talent inside.
The strength of mind and heart, 
Convention c..."></div>
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