:11:00
And was whuppin' ass too.
:11:03
(Reporter) 'Deposed champion
Cassius Clay, at court in Houston,
:11:06
'is found guilty of violating
Selective Service laws
:11:09
'by refusing to be inducted.
:11:11
'He is sentenced to five years
in prison and fined $10,000.'
:11:15
(Lee) 'The way he fused
politics and sports.
:11:18
'Very few Black athletes had ever
talked the way Muhammad Ali talked
:11:23
'without fear of something
happening to their careers.'
:11:26
(Reporter) '..as a Moslem minister
made him exempt...'
:11:29
(Man) 'He was already very unpopular
with mainstream Americans
:11:33
'because he had joined
the Nation of Islam,
:11:36
'which was perceived as
a radical Black separatist group.'
:11:40
On top of that,
when he was called for induction
:11:43
he refused to take the step forward.
:11:46
He absolutely infuriated America.
:11:48
Muhammad Ali said,
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."
:11:52
The king is going home
to get his throne.
:11:54
From root to fruit,
that's where everything started at.
:11:58
This is God's act
and you're part of it.
:12:00
This is no Hollywood set,
this is real.
:12:02
Hollywood set up these scenes,
:12:04
have somebody in the movies
playing his life.
:12:07
We don't pick up a script.
:12:09
We get up in the morning,
:12:11
sometimes we feel good,
sometimes bad,
:12:13
but we go through it with feeling.
:12:16
'Muhammad Ali's a prophet, he gonna
be a fisherman for Elijah Muhammad.
:12:20
'This is only a stop, look and
listen sign he's doing, fighting.'
:12:25
We been fightin' ever since we met.
:12:28
We beat Uncle Sam, come out
of the garage and beat number two.
:12:32
First man ever did it. Rest of 'em
they put out of the country.
:12:39
'This is God's act,
we just actors in it.
:12:42
'If Jesus was here
everybody'd want his autograph
:12:45
'and they'd be filming him.
:12:47
'This is a sport,
that's why you walking, talk to him.'
:12:51
I think Muhammad is a prophet.
How you gonna beat God's son?
:12:55
Anybody who loves poor people
and little people gotta be a prophet.
:12:59
He was champion of the world,
had a table full of food.