Howard Cosell Quotes

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

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Some people in the gay community were very upset with me for not coming out on their terms.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

One hero in my life that I've had from college on to now was Muhammad Ali. I studied his quotes, his style, and his strength. He was a revolutionary in every sense of the word.

Obviously I'm going to have haters.

Man, all lives matter.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist. To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized.

There'll never be another Muhammad Ali. He was a superstar. And although he has gone, his legacy will live on for what he has done for sport and humanity.

The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so.

It takes one person to stand up for what he believes in. I believe there's been an injustice in Arizona. I oppose Bill 1070.

Muhammad Ali was the greatest of all time. But what made him even greater was what he did outside the ring.

This era of political correctness out there needs to go.

The pickets were just a fact of life. And the fact that people hated us from the time I was tiny, the fact that we were hated, I was taught, was a cause for great rejoicing.

I support Richard Spencer's right to say what he wants. He can be nasty about Jewish people, he has a right to free speech, but I don't want to be a part of that.

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the rallies working on behalf of people of color.

Being a public figure a lot of people will really love what you do, but you know there is also a ton of people who will hate on it.

I am one of the most attacked persons.

My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

I remember watching the first Million Man March as a kid, and I always knew that if I got a chance to go to one, I would go.

I'm not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.