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A final farewell to one of the greatest sporting | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
icons of all time - Muhammad Ali's memorial | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
is being attended by world leaders, friends and relatives. | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
Tens of thousands of mourners have lined the route of his final | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
procession to pay their respects to the boxing legend. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
the UDC lives in Kentucky when the former president Bill Clinton will | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
And I'm Laura Trevelyan in Louisville, Kentucky, | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
where the memorial service is due to start in around an hour. | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
A service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral marks | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
the start of the Queen's official 90th birthday Celebrations. | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
Also in the next hour: Euro 2016 gets under way in France. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The disturbances took place at Marseille's old port just ahead of | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
tomorrow night's game against Russia at 2016. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
I knew how much expectation there would be and I did not want to let | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
And JK Rowling on the pressure for her play about that | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC News. | :01:28. | :01:48. | |
Let's join our correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, who's | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Just a few blocks from me is the KFC young centre where 15,000 people | :01:51. | :02:09. | |
have gathered. The memorial service is due to begin shortly and it is a | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
star-studded cast. Bill Clinton will be delivering one of the eulogies, | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
the actor Billy Crystal will deliver another, the president of Turkey is | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
present there as well. This will be an Interfaith Memorial service and | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
it follows this morning where there was a final procession for Muhammad | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Ali as his casket was carried through the streets. Past his | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
childhood home, as the places where he learned to box and the streets | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
were thronged with people who had were thronged with people who had | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
The man they called the Louisville Lip on his final lap. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
At the funeral parlour, family members and pallbearers | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
gather - like former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson - | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
as his coffin is loaded into the hearse. | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
A final journey that will take in the streets where he grew up, | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
around the city that was home, but where he also fought | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
the segregation of 1960s America. | :03:16. | :03:16. | |
And along the way, the streets are literally echoing to his name. | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
Lining the route, those whose lives he touched and the people | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
When you leave Ali, I have always thought, hmm, | :03:32. | :03:48. | |
as he always had something to say on wisdom. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
But he left a legacy that will keep going. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
But he is still here, he lives in all of us. | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
Since his death was announced, the Muhammad Ali Centre has | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
become a makeshift shrine, a place where people | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
I spoke to his friend and fellow civil rights activist, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
It is a sad day and a glad day, glad because the world | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
acknowledges the special genius and greatness of Muhammad Ali | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
Sad because we miss him, we miss him already, | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
but his life and legacy and his music, as it were, lives on. | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
It may be over 50 years since he fought battles on race | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
and the Vietnam War, and 50 years since he became world | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
champion, but this is someone whose significance went way beyond sport | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
and politics and he transcends the generations. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
There are young and old on the streets today, | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
and to modern America, his fight against injustice, | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
intolerance, his pitch that anyone can achieve | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
He is a cultural icon, to those on the streets, | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
he was and still remains the greatest. | :05:05. | :05:22. | |
That memorial service for Muhammad Ali is due to start very shortly. It | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
is being held dust they block or so away from me here. What has happened | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
there is that family members of Muhammad Ali are just going in to | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
the auditorium and the 15,000 guests who were there, people from | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
everywhere, everyone has been asked to rise to honour the family. This | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
is going to be an Interfaith Memorial service. Muhammad Ali | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
wanted the presents tips from all the religions. Will be Mormons, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Buddhist, Catholics as well as Islamic scholars who will be | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
speaking. Family members have said that this is because it is | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
representing more hammered Ali's vision of an inclusive world, and | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
the unity that he wanted to see in the world. We will see this memorial | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
service beginning with their recitation from the Koran and an | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
English translation and representatives from all the | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
religions. That will be around 40 minutes and then family members will | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
speak. His wife will speak, his daughter will speak and another | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
daughter will speak. We will hear a reading from the daughter of Malcolm | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
by, the founder of the nation of Islam that was such an influential | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
movement for more Ali himself. He converted back in 1963. He was | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
raised a Baptist. The first of the raised a Baptist. The first of the | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Interfaith speakers to speak will be from a Baptist church here in | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Louisville and that the religion that he started his live with. Then, | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
after the family members who will speak we will hear from friends, | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
from Billy Crystal the actor and comedian as well as a sportscaster | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
and the final eulogy will be delivered by President Bill Clinton. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
A close friend of Muhammad Ali and who was with them when the centre | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
was opened in 2005. A long time supporter. That memorial service | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
will be getting underway very shortly. | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
And one person who could not be here today was President Obama, because | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
his daughter is graduating from high school. He did pay tribute today. | :08:02. | :08:21. | |
I have had to slug it out little bit here in Washington and there have | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
been times where I've been the underdog, just like the Champ. | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
There have been times where I got beat up a little bit, | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
and had to come back, and that sense of resilience, | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
that's what these boxing gloves represent to me. | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
So I just want to say, not just to all the fans around | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
the world who drew such inspiration from Muhammad Ali, but most | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
importantly to his family, to Lonnie and the kids and everybody | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
who I know is celebrating a life during this week, you know, | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
it is very rare where a figure captures the imagination | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
of the entire world, and it is even rarer when that | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
figure does so by being open and funny, and generous, and courageous. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
He was one-of-a-kind and in my book he will always be the greatest. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
He was one-of-a-kind and in my book he will always be the greatest. | :09:00. | :09:15. | |
President Obama who keeps a pair of Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves in his | :09:16. | :09:27. | |
private study just off the west wing of the Oval Office. He also has an | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali after winning a seminal fight in his | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
private study as well. President Obama one of so many people from | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
around the world paying tribute to Muhammad Ali and shortly has | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
memorial service is going to begin here in Kentucky just short way away | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
from where I am talking to you now. There were 15,000 tickets given out | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
for this service. People were told to start queueing in the morning and | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
the Jews were so long that they are to start giving the tickets out | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
earlier because there were worries about the effect of the heat on | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
people. All 15,000 tickets were given out within one hour, so many | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
people wanted to be here for what they know will be an extremely | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
special event. This is going to begin, it is due to be about two | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
hours long, with a recitation from the Koran. That'll be from an arm | :10:21. | :10:34. | |
and Muslim scholar. -- in. This event was carefully planned by | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Muhammad Ali and one of the speakers today, who is an Islamic scholar at | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
the University of Waterloo in Canada, he planned the service very | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
carefully with Muhammad Ali and he is one of the people who performed | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
hammered -- Muslim burial ritual on hammered -- Muslim burial ritual on | :10:54. | :11:04. | |
Muhammad Ali. Bill Clinton is coming in. He will be delivering one of the | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
eulogies. A close personal friend of Muhammad Ali. Someone who has paid | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
tribute to his activism, to his role as a global humanitarian, to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
speaking out against injustice and racism. He is supportive of the | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
centre that I am standing in front of which was opened in 2000 and | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
five. President Clinton was here for the opening of that and he will be | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the final speaker today. He will wrap up what will be an extremely | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
moving occasion and on occasion just as Muhammad Ali wanted it to be. He | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
knew this would be his farewell to the world. He spent ten years | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
planning this with his wife and with helpers. Being a performer, a | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
showman, a wit, he wanted to showcase his life and we can listen | :11:58. | :12:09. | |
in now. In accordance with Muslim tradition | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
and consistent with the wishes of Muhammad Ali, may God have mercy on | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
him. We begin this programme with a brief recitation from the Koran, the | :12:23. | :12:36. | |
Scripture of the Muslims. He is a young Imam. He is spearheading a | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
blighted areas in Memphis. It is one blighted areas in Memphis. It is one | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
of the few African American graduates. He will share with us a | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
few verses from the Koran. now, with the translation of those | :12:56. | :17:28. | |
verses, we would like to bring to the stage someone who is a second | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
immigrants, an excellent student. In immigrants, an excellent student. In | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
her spare time in recent years she raises money to provide medical | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
supplies, surgical instruments, and other forms of medical assistance | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
for Syrian refugees fleeing from the horror of the current conflict in | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
that land. We pray that Almighty God brings it to a cessation soon. | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
APPLAUSE In the name of God, the most | :18:13. | :18:30. | |
those who say our Lord is gods, and those who say our Lord is gods, and | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
are upright, the angels will descend upon them saying, have neither fear | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
nor sadness. But rather rejoice in this paradise that you have been | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
promised. We are your allies in this lower life and the life after you | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
will have your heart's desire and you will have whatever ask for. As | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
bitterly, from the one most forgiving, most merciful. -- | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
hospitably. Who is more beautiful in speech than the one who invites to | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
God and us righteous works, saying, truly I am submitted to God? For | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
good and evil are not equal. Repel ugliness with beauty and behold the | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
one between Jew and whom there was enmity is transformed into a warm | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
friend. But no one arrives at the station without great patience and | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
immense fortune. Prostration, chapter 41, versus 30 - 35. Thank | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
you. I forgot to mention that she is from | :19:52. | :20:09. | |
Louisville, a proud resident of the city. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
O God, bless this day of hours. You O God, bless this day of hours. You | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
are our protector. What an excellent protector. What an excellent helper. | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
Honourable president Bill, William J Clinton, distinguished guests, | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
viewing audience, on behalf of the viewing audience, on behalf of the | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
family and the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the home of the People's | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Champ... APPLAUSE | :20:47. | :21:09. | |
Ali! Louisville, Kentucky, admirably led by Meier Greg Fisher, I would | :21:10. | :21:34. | |
like to welcome you -- Mayor. I would like to welcome you to this | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
memorial service for the People's Champ, Muhammad Ali. At this time we | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
would like to introduce our first speaker, Doctor Kevin Cosby. | :21:47. | :22:05. | |
Time does not permit us to cheer. He has served as senior pastor and | :22:06. | :22:21. | |
congregation has grown exponentially congregation has grown exponentially | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
over the long years of his ministry. Reverend Cosby combines passion, wit | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
and intellect as the foundation of the inspirational and inspirational | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
ministry that has transformed the lives of thousands of individuals. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Reverend Cosby. APPLAUSE | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
Thank you. I looked in the dictionary for the | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
word fidelity. It had two words. Lonnie Ali. In 1967, nine months | :22:52. | :23:17. | |
prior to his assassination and martyrdom, Doctor Martin Luther King | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
Jr. Was interviewed. The interviewer asked Doctor King a relevant | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
question. He said, Doctor King, what has been the greatest effect and | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
impact that the civil rights struggle has had on the Montenegro? | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Doctor King paused and said, besides the dismantling of barriers that | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
prohibited the Montenegro from free access, the greatest and most | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
profound effect that the civil rights struggle had was that it in | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
fused something that we needed all along. And that was a sense of | :24:09. | :24:22. | |
somebody nests. You will never be able to PCH what Doctor King meant | :24:23. | :24:33. | |
when he said we needed the sense of somebody ness. Until you understand | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
the 350 years of nobody ness, that was infused into the psyche of | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
people of colour. Every sake -- every sacred document in our | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
history, every hallowed institution conspired to convince the African in | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
America that when God made the African that God was guilty of | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
creative malfeasance. All of sacrosanct documents from the | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
constitution, said that you are not ready. The Constitution said that we | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
were three fifths of a person. Decisions by the Supreme Court said | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
to the African that you have no rights, that whites were bound to | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
respect. And even Francis Scott Key, in his writing of the Star-Spangled | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
Banner, we sing verse one, but in verse three he celebrates slavery by | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
from the sorrow of night or the from the sorrow of night or the | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
death of the grave. Every institution from religion to | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
to Jane and styles and, in fused in to Jane and styles and, in fused in | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
the Cyclery of the African that he was inferior. But something happened | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
to the depression generation and the World War II generation of African | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
Americans. Jackie Robinson picked up his bat and hit a ball and the | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
Brooklyn Dodgers one. Joe Lewis dismantled the pride of Arian | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
supremacy by knocking out his opponents in 124 seconds. Jesse | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
Lewis runs an ambulatory speed and winds for gold medals. Rosa Park | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
sits down in a bus in December 1955 and a young seminary student from | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
Boston University takes the complex ideas and tips on chocolate -- | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
dipped it in chocolate. APPLAUSE | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
And then from Louisville,... APPLAUSE | :27:18. | :27:31. | |
Emerged the silver tongued poet who took the ethos of somebody nests to | :27:32. | :27:40. | |
unheard-of heights. Before James Brown said, I am black and I am | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
proud, Muhammad Ali said, I am black and I am pretty. | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
APPLAUSE Black and pretty was an oxymoron. | :27:55. | :28:03. | |
Blacks did not say pretty. The first black millionaire in this country | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
was not Oprah, but Madame CJ Walker. Who made products in order to help | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
black people escape their African ancestry. Mahmood Ali said, I am | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
proud. I am pretty. I am glad of who I am. And when he said that, that | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
infused in Africans a sense of somebody ness. To extrapolate | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
Muhammad Ali from the times in which he lived is what is called history. | :28:40. | :28:48. | |
It is to talk about George Washington and not talk about the | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
revolution. It is to talk about Abraham Lincoln and not the Civil | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
War. Roosevelt and not talk about the depression. And World War II. | :28:57. | :29:06. | |
Our brother, Muhammad Ali, was a product of a difficult time. And he | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
dead to love. -- he dead to love. He dared to love America's most unloved | :29:10. | :29:46. | |
race. And he loved us all and we loved him because we knew he loved | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
us. He loved us all. Whether you lived in the suburbs of whether you | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
lived in the slumps. Whether you lived on the Avenue of whether you | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
lived in an alley. Whether you came from the penthouse of whether you | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
lived in the projects. Whether you came from more house of whether you | :30:07. | :30:16. | |
had no house. Whether you were hot yellow or not black, Muhammad Ali | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
loved you. Aber city is known for two things. It is no one for | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
Muhammad Ali and it is known for the Kentucky Derby debris. We hope you | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
will come back and visit our city the first Saturday in May. We hope | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
you will place a bet on one of the horses. But if you do, please know | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
the rules. What will happen is the horses. In the starting gate and | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
then the signal will be given and they will run in the mud for two | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
minutes. Add the winner will then be led to the winner's circle where a | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
read of roses will be played around the force's neck. We want you to | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
make a bet but please know the rules. You cannot bet for the horse | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
once it is in the winner's circle. You have to bet for the horse while | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
it is still in the mud. APPLAUSE | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
And there are a lot of people, there are a lot of people who have bet on | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
Muhammad Ali when he was in the winner's circle. But the masses bet | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
on him while he was still in the mud. | :31:34. | :31:45. | |
Some people stood with him while he was in the mud. | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
APPLAUSE Please don't mishear me. I'm not | :31:50. | :32:07. | |
saying that Muhammad Ali is the property of black people. He is the | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
property of all people. APPLAUSE | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
But while he is the property of all people, let us never forget that he | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
is the product of black people in their struggle to be free. | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
APPLAUSE I went looking for Jesus on a poor | :32:36. | :32:44. | |
street, thinking that I would find him as he walked around with men and | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
women with stumbling feet. People who had their heads bowed low | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
because they were broke and had nowhere to go. But then I went | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
looking for Jesus way in the sky thinking he would wear a robe that | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
would dazzle my eye. When certainly Jesus came walking by with stumbling | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
feet because he had been hanging with the poor on a west street. | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
APPLAUSE The Muhammad Ali of my childhood had | :33:13. | :33:29. | |
a shuffle but as he grew older he what with shuffling feet, and I | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
submit to you that he walked with shuffling feet not because of | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
Parkinson's disease, but he walked with shuffling feet because he hung | :33:38. | :33:47. | |
out with the folk in Louisville who had shuffling feet. Peace, and God | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
bless you. APPLAUSE | :33:52. | :34:21. | |
Yes, yes. Do not give a teenager a telephone and do not get a preacher | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
and microphone! LAUGHTER | :34:27. | :34:35. | |
We would like to bring the Senator to the stage. Now in his seventh | :34:36. | :34:47. | |
term as the Utah Senator, one of Utah's senators. The most senior | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
Republican in the Senate, author of some of the most far reaching | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
legislation we have had in decades. Senator Orrin Hatch is a | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
distinguished public servant and we are deeply honoured by his presence | :35:02. | :35:13. | |
today. Well, Reverend, that was really good. Difficult for this poor | :35:14. | :35:23. | |
old Senator to try to follow that! Well, ahead of the first fight | :35:24. | :35:37. | |
with sunny Liston Muhammad Ali stood before a pack of reporters and said | :35:38. | :35:47. | |
who he was, "I am the greatest". That is who he was -- Sonny Liston. | :35:48. | :35:55. | |
He was not Muhammad Ali, the prizefighter, or even Muhammad Ali, | :35:56. | :36:02. | |
the world champion. He was Muhammad Ali, the greatest. All these | :36:03. | :36:12. | |
doubters dismissed that declamation as bravado but he was not talking | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
trash, he was speaking truth. And he was, in the world of boxing, he | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
truly was the greatest. APPLAUSE | :36:21. | :36:34. | |
With the cut-throat quickness of a street fighter, and the simple grace | :36:35. | :36:42. | |
of a ballerina, he moved with agility and punched with Herculean | :36:43. | :36:50. | |
strength, but to assure that Ali's greatness stemmed purely from his | :36:51. | :36:53. | |
athletic prowess is to see only half the man. Ali was great, not only as | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
an extraordinary fighter, but he was a committed civil rights leader, an | :37:00. | :37:06. | |
international diplomat, an advocate of religious freedom, and effective | :37:07. | :37:16. | |
for Islam. He was something. He was caring as a father, husband, brother | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
and a friend. Indeed, it is as a personal friend that I witnessed | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
Ali's greatness for myself. I first met Muhammad Ali 28 years ago, | :37:28. | :37:35. | |
almost to the day, to this day. I was in my Senate office and an | :37:36. | :37:37. | |
assistant called and said, you have a visitor outside. I was really | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
surprised that it was none other than the champion himself. The | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
friendship we developed, I think, was puzzling to many people, | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
especially to those who saw only our differences. And I would say that | :37:53. | :38:06. | |
where others saw difference, Ali and I saw kinship. We were both | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
dedicated to our families, and deeply devoted to our faiths. He | :38:12. | :38:21. | |
took Islam and I to the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints. | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
We were both products of humble backgrounds and hard youths. Ali | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
grew up poor here in Louisville and I grew up poor in Pittsburgh. True, | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
we were different in some ways but that fortified our friendship. They | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
did not define it. I saw greatness in Ali's ability to look beyond the | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
horizon. And our differences. To find common ground. This shared | :38:48. | :38:55. | |
sensibility was the foundation of a rich and meaningful relationship. | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
And I will forever treasure it. One of my fondest memories of our | :39:01. | :39:10. | |
friendship was when Ali joined me in the Salt Lake to listen to the Salt | :39:11. | :39:17. | |
Lake Quire. I have to say it was the Mormon Quire -- choir. Ali love | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
music and he enjoyed the choir's performance but he seemed more | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
pleased to share his particular religious beliefs with those who | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
came to hear the Christian hens. He attracted big crowds, as he always | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
did, and eagerly gave everyone autographed pamphlet explaining his | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
Muslim beliefs -- Christian hymn. Hundreds of Mormons lined up to grab | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
his pamphlets and of course I took one for myself. I was begging his | :39:50. | :39:53. | |
deeply held convictions just as he respected mine. -- I respected his | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
deeply held convictions. Our friendship was anchored by a | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
different faiths. He was open to goodness in all of its realities and | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
the righties. On another occasion I took him to Primary Children's | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
Hospital in Salt Lake City. We visited downtrodden children who | :40:16. | :40:23. | |
perhaps had never smiled a day in their lifetimes, until Ali showed | :40:24. | :40:25. | |
up. He held those kids and look into their eyes. They would grin from ear | :40:26. | :40:33. | |
to ear. These were kids that never smiled, they were so pained. The | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
nurses were astounded. Never before had they seen someone who had | :40:38. | :40:43. | |
connected so immediately and profoundly with these sick children. | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
Ali had a special way with kids, as we all know. He may have been a | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
tough and tenacious man in the ring but he was compassionate and tender | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
around those he loved. For all of this ferocity as a fighter, Ali was | :41:01. | :41:06. | |
also a peacemaker. A particular radio host in Utah berated me | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
constantly on the airwaves. Week after week, the host asked, if I | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
would arrange for Ali to meet Utah's former middleweight champion for a | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
joint interview. Ali agreed, knowing the appearance could help me build | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
some goodwill, but he was also very interested in meeting him as well. | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
It was an unforgettable experience. There were two champions, | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
face-to-face, reminiscing about some of the best fights the world has | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
ever seen, and I have to say that in the process, Ali charm the radio | :41:46. | :42:02. | |
host so much on my behalf, gently transforming an antagonist into a | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
sparring partner, so dedicated was he to our friendship that he joined | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
me on the campaign trail, during several election cycles. He came to | :42:11. | :42:19. | |
Utah year after year to raise funds for charity benefiting needy women, | :42:20. | :42:22. | |
women in jeopardy and families in our state. Ali did not look at life | :42:23. | :42:32. | |
through the binary lens of the Republican and Democrat so common | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
today. He is worthy causes and shared humanity. His willingness to | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
put principles ahead of partnership helped show us all the path to | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
greatness and I will never forget that greatness and nor will I ever | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
forget him. APPLAUSE | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
There were many faces to Ali's greatness. His abilities as a boxer, | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
his charisma as a public figure, his Netherlands as a father and as a | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
friend -- his benevolence as a father. All of these made him great | :43:15. | :43:17. | |
but there was something else that made him the greatest. Ali was the | :43:18. | :43:25. | |
greatest because, as debilitated yet unbroken champion in his later | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
years, he pointed us to beyond ourselves. A greatness beyond even | :43:30. | :43:36. | |
Ali. He pointed us to the greatness of God. | :43:37. | :43:37. | |
APPLAUSE God raised up Ali to be the greatest | :43:38. | :43:51. | |
fighter in the world of all-time, yet he allowed Ali to wrestle with | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
Parkinson's disease, and inescapable reminder that we are all mortal and | :43:58. | :44:04. | |
we are all dependent on God's race. Ali believe this himself and he once | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
told me, "God gave me this condition to remind me always that I am human | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
-- God's grace. And that only he is the greatest." | :44:16. | :44:25. | |
Ali was an unsurpassed symbol of our universal dependence on the divine. | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
He was the greatest. Because he reminded us all who truly is the | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
greatest, God, our Creator. I am eternally grateful for my special | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
bond with this special man and for my friendship with his beloved wife, | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
Lonnie, who I loved dearly. She is one of the great women in this | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
world. -- love dearly. APPLAUSE | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
She was dedicated to her companion until the very end and, boy, I know | :45:03. | :45:10. | |
it. I pray he will rest peacefully in the presence of the greatest of | :45:11. | :45:18. | |
all. I can bear testimony that I believe in God. I believe we are | :45:19. | :45:25. | |
here on earth for a reason. I believe that this Earth life is a | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
time for us to do what is right for God, and for our fellow men and | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
women, and I do not know that I have ever met anybody who did it any | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
better than my friend, Muhammad Ali. God bless you and God bless the | :45:45. | :45:46. | |
family. APPLAUSE | :45:47. | :45:55. | |
Next, we would like to welcome Father, the father who was named | :45:56. | :46:19. | |
with the title Monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1991. His wisdom, | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
scholarship and spiritual guidance is a source of countless guidance | :46:28. | :46:34. | |
for Catholics and members of other faith communities far beyond his | :46:35. | :46:44. | |
Pennsylvania home. Father Crighton... Let us prey. Loving | :46:45. | :46:54. | |
eternal God. As we gather today in prayer, we do so with an abiding | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
sense of gratitude. Our gratitude holds no bones, as we thank you for | :47:00. | :47:06. | |
the gifts of this good and gentlemen -- no bounds. Muhammad Ali opened | :47:07. | :47:13. | |
our eyes to the evil of racism, to the absurdity of war. He should us | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
with incredible patients that a debilitating illness need never | :47:18. | :47:30. | |
diminish joy and love in our lives -- patience. He showed the need to | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
respect one another, to set aside racial differences. The legendary | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
fighter of all time in reality taught us to heal rather than to | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
fight. To embrace rather than to turn away. To include rather than | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
exclude. Whilst proclaiming himself to be the greatest, he should us | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
that his greatness lay in his love and concern for others, both | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
particularly the marginalised, the suffering, the helpless, the | :48:03. | :48:10. | |
hopeless. Your gift of him has enriched us, has made us better | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
people, has created a more gentle world. We dare not return him to you | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
today without expressing our gratitude for the gift of him. Amen. | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
APPLAUSE Next we will hear a few brief words | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
from Doctor Timothy Gianotti, an expert in | :48:33. | :49:04. | |
Islamic studies in Ontarian, Canada. He is the principal Islamic adviser | :49:05. | :49:13. | |
to the Ali family. He was instrumental in ensuring the last | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
days of Muhammad's life, his shrouding, his burial and funeral | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
today were all in accordance with the Scriptures of Muslim law. I | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
would now like to bring to you the person I affectionately call brother | :49:33. | :49:40. | |
Doctor Imam Timothy person I affectionately call brother | :49:41. | :50:00. | |
Doctor Imam Timothy Gianotti. In the name of God who is the loving | :50:01. | :50:21. | |
nurturer of creation, and the ever compassionate and ever merciful, I | :50:22. | :50:31. | |
would like to share a player today. And this is a pre-adapted from a | :50:32. | :50:34. | |
traditional prayer of the Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon | :50:35. | :50:53. | |
you. I would like to see to the family, to Lonnie, to everyone here, | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
that serving Muhammad Ali has been one of the greatest privileges of my | :50:58. | :51:10. | |
life. God, you who are the light of the heavens and the earth, Grant our | :51:11. | :51:20. | |
brother Muhammad a light in his heart, a light in his earthly body | :51:21. | :51:29. | |
no -- now restored to the earth. A light in his grave. A light before | :51:30. | :51:38. | |
him as he journeys on to you, a light in all that he has left behind | :51:39. | :51:48. | |
in this world, a light to his right and a light to his left. Oh, God, | :51:49. | :51:56. | |
increase him in light. Grant him late. A light in his deeds in this | :51:57. | :52:06. | |
world and a light in the hereafter -- grant him. A light in the hearts | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
of those whom he loved and a light in the eyes of those who loved him. | :52:12. | :52:23. | |
A light in those whom he knocked down, and a light in those whom he | :52:24. | :52:33. | |
lifted up. A light in his words which echo in our hearts, a light in | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
the lives of all those whom he touched. A light in his children, | :52:42. | :52:52. | |
and a light in their mothers, a light in his grandchildren, and a | :52:53. | :53:02. | |
light in his devoted wife, Lonnie. Lord, increase your servant in | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
light, and give him light. Embrace him in light, and Phil us all with | :53:10. | :53:26. | |
light -- fill us. You who are either light of the heavens and the earth. | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
# Who are the light. You who are the most merciful. Allah. | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
APPLAUSE Next we will hear a few words from | :53:39. | :54:06. | |
the Rabbi who is the editor of a magazine whose name suggests -- as | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
whose name suggests, the dedicated his life to working to repair the | :54:13. | :54:26. | |
world. Rabbi Lerner is never afraid of ruffling a few feathers so we | :54:27. | :54:28. | |
asking to be nice today. LAUGHTER | :54:29. | :54:30. | |
. Rabbi Lerner... APPLAUSE | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
We will see about those feathers. LAUGHTER | :54:37. | :54:46. | |
Master of compassion, God of compassion, send your blessings to | :54:47. | :54:57. | |
Muhammad Ali, and send your blessings to all who mourn for him, | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
and send your blessings for all the millions and millions of people who | :55:02. | :55:09. | |
mourn for him over this planet. I come here speaking as a | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
representative of American Jews and to say that American Jews played an | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
important role of solidarity with the effort in American struggles in | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
this country and that we today stand in solidarity with the Islamic | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
unity, in this country and all around the world. | :55:28. | :55:36. | |
APPLAUSE # With Islamic communities. We will | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down Muslims and | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
blaming Muslims for a few people. APPLAUSE | :55:47. | :56:03. | |
We know what it is like to be demeaned, to have a few people who | :56:04. | :56:09. | |
act against the highest visions of our tradition, to then be identified | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
as the value of the entire tradition, and one of the reasons | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
that we at our magazine, a magazine of liberal progressive Jews but also | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
an interfaith magazine, have called upon the United States to stand up | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
to the part of the Israeli government that is oppressing | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
Palestinians, is that we, as Jews, understand that our commitment is to | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
recognise that God has created everyone in God's image, and that | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
everyone is equally precious, and that means the Palestinian people as | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
well as all other people on the planet. | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
APPLAUSE I know the people of Louisville have | :56:57. | :57:01. | |
a special relationship to Muhammad Ali and I had a personal | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
relationship in this 60s when both of us were indicted by the federal | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
Government for our stand against the war in Vietnam. I want to say that | :57:12. | :57:21. | |
although he was cheered on as the heavyweight champion of the world, | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
you know, the truth is that all honour to him, but heavyweight | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
champions of the WorldCom and go. Sports heroes come and go. There was | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
something about Muhammad Ali that was different -- of the world come | :57:36. | :57:45. | |
and go. He used that stands to stand up to an immoral war and say, "no, I | :57:46. | :57:56. | |
won't go". It is for that reason that tens of millions of Americans | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
who do not particularly care about boxing do care about Muhammad Ali, | :58:02. | :58:04. | |
because he was a person who was willing to risk a great honour that | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
he got, and the great theme that he got, to stand up for the beliefs | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
that he had, to speak truth to power when the rest of the people around | :58:16. | :58:21. | |
him said, "no, you will lose your championship," and it was taken away | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
from him, but he stood up and was willing to take that kind of a risk | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
because of his moral integrity -- the great fame that he got. So I | :58:32. | :58:38. | |
want to say, how do we honour Muhammad Ali? And the answer is the | :58:39. | :58:44. | |
way to honour Muhammad Ali is to be Muhammad Ali today. That means us, | :58:45. | :58:51. | |
everyone here and everyone listening, it is up to us to | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
continue that ability to speak truth to power. We must speak out, reviews | :58:57. | :59:05. | |
to follow the path of conformity to the game in life. You must refuse to | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
follow the rules of conformity. Tell the 1% to one the 80% of the wealth | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
in this country, it is time to share that well. | :59:15. | :59:17. | |
APPLAUSE Tell the politicians who use | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
violence worldwide and then preach nonviolence to the oppressed, it is | :59:23. | :59:29. | |
time for them to end their drone work there and every other form of | :59:30. | :59:32. | |
warfare, to bring the troops home, to close those bases, to tell those | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
who created mass incarceration it is time for everyone in our society... | :59:40. | :59:47. | |
Tell judges to let out of prison the many African-Americans swept up by | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
racist police and imprisoned by racist judges. | :59:53. | :59:53. | |
APPLAUSE Many of them in prison today for | :59:54. | :00:10. | |
offences like possessing marijuana that white people get away with all | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
the time. APPLAUSE | :00:13. | :00:24. | |
Tell our elected officials to imprison those who approved torture. | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
Till the leaders of tacky to stop killing the Kurdish people. Still | :00:35. | :00:48. | |
the occupation of the West Bank and help create a Palestinian state. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Till the next President of the United States | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
CHEERING that she should seek a constitutional amendment to make | :01:05. | :01:28. | |
sure that all sorts of money from corporations and individuals should | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
be banned and that should all come from public funding. | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
Tell her that the way to achieve homeland security is not for us to | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
try new ways of domination. The strategy of domination has been | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
tried for the past 10,000 years and it does not work. We want the United | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
States to become the most generous and giving country in the world, not | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
the most powerful. We can start with the global and domestic Marshall | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
plan to once and for all and global and domestic poverty and | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
homelessness, poor education and inadequate health care. As cheer of | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
the Interfaith network of spiritual messengers, come and join us. I want | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
to affirm our commitment to the well-being of all Muslims on this | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
planet, as well as the people of all faiths. We wish to pay on to the | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
Muslims of the warrant during Ramadan. We want to join and | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
celebrate in the life of Muhammad Ali. Peace be upon him and peace be | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
upon the Prophet Muhammad. Cramming. Tamer is not on our side. After that | :03:05. | :04:11. | |
speech. Sidney Hill was selected 14 years ago as the spiritual leader of | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
his people. He is a leader whose spirituality and passionate pursuit | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
of justice is un-rivalled. We are honoured that he has come here | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
today. The translation was it is my | :04:28. | :06:54. | |
responsibility to speak on behalf of the people of the long house. They | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
want you to be at peace of mind. Though, this great darkness which | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
has happened to us, we must understand that he who has gathered | :07:15. | :07:27. | |
as here, peacefully, will arrive at his land. The land of the Creator. | :07:28. | :07:43. | |
These were the words. To the family, the relatives, of Muhammad Ali. He | :07:44. | :08:05. | |
was a leader. He was a leader of men and a champion of the people. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
APPLAUSE. He fought for the colour of people | :08:12. | :08:25. | |
-- of his people, but he was a man of peace, a man of compassion. His | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
spirit has a clear path to the Creator. | :08:37. | :08:53. | |
Myself, the faith keeper of the clan, we have journeyed here today | :08:54. | :09:06. | |
to add our voice to this congregation in honour of his work | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
and for the rights and dignity of people of colour and the common man. | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
He was always in support of the indigenous peoples. For our inherent | :09:21. | :09:38. | |
rates, our land rights, or self-determination and identity. | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
These include the natural world. We know what he was up against. Because | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
we have had 524 years survival training ourselves. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
In 1978, a Congressman from Washington Bridge built into | :10:06. | :10:21. | |
Congress to terminate our treaties with the United States. The Indian | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
nations walked from California to Washington in protest. Muhammad Ali | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
Marched into Washington with us. He was a free, independent spirit. | :10:36. | :10:55. | |
He stood his ground with great courage and conviction. And he peed | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
a place. What his country did too. We all did. Values, principles that | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
the German one destiny. The principles of a nation. Good people | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
do not have many options. Good fighters know what I am talking | :11:26. | :11:41. | |
about. He said, that the ring was his path to his destiny. He said he | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
would be heavyweight champion of the world and he was, three games. And | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
this is the fourth time, right here right now. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
On his journey in life, he lived and layer and the hard way. He brought | :11:57. | :12:17. | |
to light into this world. My world. Our world. And that light will shine | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
a long, long time. Peace, brother, peace. On behalf of | :12:27. | :12:54. | |
of our people and indigenous people everywhere, peace. Thank you. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
We introduced the chief. His translation, we thank him for. He | :12:59. | :13:28. | |
was born on the need reservation in upstate New York. He became the | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
faith keeper of the Turtle clan. No, we would | :13:33. | :14:01. | |
like to introduce the leader of interfaith work. He has a passion | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
for teaching youth and invite letters has worked with years which | :14:06. | :14:15. | |
led him to cross purposes with Muhammad Ali. His religious | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
leadership focuses on compassion and tear and working together with all | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
to build a better world. Rabbi Rapport. This is a reading from a | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
war players on. It was written many | :14:41. | :14:56. | |
years ago when he could not have known years ago when he was writing | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
these words that he was composing E eulogy to Muhammad Ali full state | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
birth is beginning and SSE continuation. From innocence to a | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
weirdness and ignorance to knowledge. From foolishness to | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
discretion. From weakness to strength and strength to weakness | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
and often back again. From health to sickness and back to health again. | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
From offence to forget the others and loneliness to life. From joy to | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
gratitude and pain to compassion. From relief to understanding, from | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
fear to faith. From defeat to defeat to defeat until looking back and you | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
are ahead. Victory is not something along the way, but having made the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
journey stage by stage. Authors are beginning, death is a destination. | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
Life is a journey. The secret pilgrimage to life everlasting. We | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
see workshop rear and we see them until we encounter someone who | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
embodies these words and makes them real. I have said these words many | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
times before and memorial services and funerals. But never have I ever | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
thought I would speak of a single shining light as I would do today. | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
Muhammad Ali Was the heart of the city. The living embodiment of the | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
greatest we can be. He was our heart and our heart beats still. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
Let me tell you a story you already know. It is one of the stories about | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
Muhammad Ali being gracious to a stranger that many of are told that | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
we sometimes forget the lessons this story is intended to teachers. It is | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
about Eve women who is driving her father to a book store to pick up | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
some Bibles and Korans 40 project they are working on. The pass a man | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
with his thumb in the year. He says he's on his way home from church and | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
just needs to go a few males down the street. They asked where he | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
lives. He did not want it to trouble them. He has no idea who is sitting | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
in the front seat of the Scarborough. Until Muhammad Ali | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
times round and says it is no trouble at all. Once the moment gets | :18:05. | :18:18. | |
over meeting the greatest, he says he would be please to give Muhammad | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
Ali the tables in appreciation of the trade. Muhammad Ali Insist on | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
paying for them. The man insists they are a gift. It turns out that | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
the man had the stroke and has been forced into retirement. Muhammad Ali | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Tracer hand a big lot of money for the Bibles. This is really gets | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
interesting. The man refused. Muhammad Ali Said, take the money, I | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
am trying to get into heaven! And the man replied, so am I! Muhammad | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
Ali Says if you do not take the money I may not get in. The man | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
says, if I take your money, I may not get ten. The arrive at his home | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
and the man invites them in to meet his wife of 30 years. He gives | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
Muhammad Ali the Bibles and Muhammad Ali sought money under the table | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
mat. He gives those numbers and tells him to give him a call | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
anything he wants a raid home from the church again. Back in the car, | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
Muhammad Ali says would you go of you read and pick him up and drive | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
him back home. She said, yes. With tears in his eyes he said that in | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
you. He says, you are on the road to | :20:04. | :20:21. | |
heaven. Therein lies the greatness of Muhammad Ali. It was his ability | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
to see in himself something greater. And to see others realise that | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
greatness resided inside themselves. There will never be another greatest | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
like Muhammad Ali. But we can no major his keenness and compassion. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
We can see in our hearts, there is a little bit of Muhammad Ali in me. | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
This week, we have mourned the loss and celebrated the life of a legend | :20:57. | :21:08. | |
and a citizen of the world. In all the words and all the ways, the most | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
powerful moments of all been made in the voices of young people, repeated | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
and peer services and chanted in the streets. I am Ali. I am not the fate | :21:19. | :21:32. | |
he was and I may be will never have the courage that he never lacked. | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
And I am certainly not as pretty! But in players, I am Muhammad Ali. | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
Cash in my peers. But we can build a legacy worthy of | :21:49. | :22:00. | |
the greatest of all time. Say that no with me, in your cart and in this | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
room, I am Ali. One of the most amazing things we | :22:04. | :22:27. | |
have witnessed here has been so many stories of canes ordinary people. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
People on the street working in the hotels and restaurants. Virtually | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
everyone has a story. They have a story concerning how Muhammad Ali | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
touched their lives. He came to my fourth grade class, Nicky Hilton | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
near it in the server that way. He came to visit me when I was sick. | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
Collectively, these experiences, they become a synergy. They become | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
greater than the individual parts. And when we came through the streets | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
of the city today I witnessed something I had never ever witnessed | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
in my life. I do not think I will ever witness this again. I witnessed | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
our. It may be loosely translated as seen truant. | :23:34. | :23:54. | |
He has a member of the Japanese Buddhist order working for model | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
piece for the practice of walking piece pilgrimages. And the | :24:03. | :24:12. | |
construction of peace all over the world. He will be joined on stage by | :24:13. | :24:24. | |
another member of the order. They will shear a traditional chant. | :24:25. | :25:04. | |
reading by Ambassador Shabazz. She is proudly the proud of her parents, | :25:05. | :30:18. | |
their parents, and then before them for descending generations. The | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
former Prime Minister of Belize recognised her as a key Ambassador | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
on international cultural affairs and project development and in 2002 | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
appointed her as ambassador at large, powerful and elegant. We | :30:33. | :30:41. | |
invite Ambassador Shabazz to read and share, and inspire us. | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
APPLAUSE Assalamu alaikum, may peace be upon | :30:46. | :31:15. | |
us. As this is a celebration, I find myself torn between celebration and | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
loss. And my breathing capacity has been weakened in this past week so I | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
ask all of you gathered here and are far too please muster up and | :31:29. | :31:39. | |
transmit a bit of your air to me. In the memory of Muhammad Ali, thank | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
you all. Shukram, Merci, gracias, obrigado | :31:45. | :32:09. | |
and more. And the differences in time zone, with all the prayers for | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
Muhammad Ali and his family being in their thoughts, and this that -- | :32:17. | :32:24. | |
omits that, in the prayers of everyone, and those who don't even | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
have a religion, they are thinking of the thoughts of the memory of | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
their family, their father, their husband. In the spirit of my | :32:32. | :32:32. | |
parents. Malcolm X Shabazz and Doctor Betty | :32:33. | :32:53. | |
Shabazz, and in the presence of my five younger sisters, our children | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
and our grandchildren, I would like to first honour his beloved id wife | :32:57. | :33:10. | |
-- his beloved wife, my sister, Lonnie Ali. For all the strengths | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
that you know and that resonate beyond, sometimes you do need a | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
little help. No matter how magnificent you are, and indeed | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
those that were with him, that loved him as family members, sustained | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
that. His name children. As well as there are | :33:30. | :33:57. | |
mothers, and the grandchildren who accompany them. To his only | :33:58. | :34:10. | |
brother, Rahman, and his extraordinary example of a best | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
friend, Howard Bingham, and to his sister-in-law Marilyn Wiliams. For | :34:14. | :34:38. | |
all of my grief, I know there is none compatible to yours. For this | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
day and those to come, as you redefine your waking days for a life | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
without him here present, very different. Photos, memories, all the | :34:50. | :35:00. | |
things we have of him, that keeping going, he touched you differently | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
and that has to be honoured and recognised, never for a second. -- | :35:05. | :35:17. | |
never forsaken. When you are descendant of the principle of | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
someone whose life was filled with principle, that seed is in use or | :35:22. | :35:23. | |
that you have to cultivate that responsibly as well. -- that seed is | :35:24. | :35:34. | |
in you. This moment is very meaningful to me, to have been | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
amongst those chosen and blessed by Muhammad himself, and affirmed by | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
his wife, Lonnie, to take part by sharing in this statement during | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
this ongoing ceremony. Whilst he and I had a treasured relationship, the | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
genesis of this love was through the love for my father. Muhammad Ali was | :35:55. | :36:03. | |
the last of a fraternity of amazing men bequeathed to be directly by my | :36:04. | :36:11. | |
dad. Somewhere between me turning 18, 19 or 20. They all seemed to | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
find me, somehow guided by an oath are promised to my dad, long after | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
him leaving this earth, to search for me. And they did. Each one, | :36:23. | :36:30. | |
remaining in my life until joining the rest of the heavens's below | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
that. This included Muhammad Ali -- the heavens's below that. My dad | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
loved him as a little brother, 16 years his junior, and he was his | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
entrusted friend. There was a double-take when I came upon him. As | :36:47. | :36:54. | |
a child, and now looking right into his face, and you know how he is. | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
When he gives you that look. LAUGHTER | :36:58. | :37:05. | |
From the very moment we found one another, it was as if no time had | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
passed at all, despite all of the presumptions of division. Despite | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
all of the efforts at separation. Despite all of the organised | :37:14. | :37:20. | |
distancing. We pulled right in to all of the unrequited duly | :37:21. | :37:27. | |
acknowledged spaces we could explore and uncover privately -- we -- dove | :37:28. | :37:41. | |
right in. He cried out loud. His belt, his grief, add not spoken to | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
my dad just before he left, then just as loudly we would laugh at the | :37:46. | :37:48. | |
best of stories, some that cannot Biraghi did. He was relief funny. | :37:49. | :37:55. | |
What was significant, as brothers, for my father and Ali to Distin -- | :37:56. | :38:05. | |
was to discuss openly anything, all facets of life, namely of their | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
responsibility of great men wanting to make a difference in the lives of | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
others. A unifying topic was faith, and a generic -- and ecumenical | :38:16. | :38:23. | |
faith, respect for all faiths, even those belonging to one specific | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
religion or none, the root of such being the gift of faith itself. In | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
his own words, he wrote "We all have the same God. We just serve him | :38:36. | :38:47. | |
differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, they all have | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
different names but they all contain water. So do religions have | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
different names, and yet they all contain truth, truth expressed in | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
different ways and forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you are a | :39:03. | :39:09. | |
Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God you should | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
believe all people are part of one family." APPLAUSE | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
If you love God you cannot love only some of his children. | :39:19. | :39:33. | |
APPLAUSE His words, and certainly ideals | :39:34. | :39:43. | |
shared by both men, love is a mighty thing, devotion is a mighty thing, | :39:44. | :39:50. | |
and truth always rains. Having Muhammad Ali in my life somehow | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
sustained my dad's breath for me, just a little while longer. 51 years | :39:55. | :40:03. | |
longer, until now. APPLAUSE | :40:04. | :40:14. | |
I am forever grateful at our union on this as together, that it allowed | :40:15. | :40:22. | |
for a continuum of shared understanding, preserve | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
confidentiality is, and the comfort of living in his own town of | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
Louisville, Kentucky, for the past ten years. | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
APPLAUSE That was not a plan. And mostly for | :40:37. | :40:44. | |
the gift of knowing and loving his wife and children forever forward as | :40:45. | :40:53. | |
my own family, know that. As the last of the fraternity reaches the | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
heavens, my heart is rendered ever longingly for that tried, tribe of | :40:58. | :41:08. | |
purpose, tribe of character, of confidence -- longingly for that | :41:09. | :41:15. | |
tribe. Tribe of duty, of faith, of service. We must make sure that the | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
principle of men and women like Muhammad Ali and others who | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
dedicated their very being to assure that you get to recognise your own | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
glory is sustained and passed on like that Olympic torch. My dad | :41:31. | :41:39. | |
would often state, when concluding a parting from another, maybe meet | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
again in the light of understanding, and I say to you with the light of | :41:46. | :41:53. | |
that compass, by any means necessary -- may we meet again. | :41:54. | :41:54. | |
APPLAUSE Ladies and gentlemen, representing | :41:55. | :42:26. | |
the president of the United States and Mrs Obama, Miss Valerie Jarrett. | :42:27. | :42:34. | |
APPLAUSE Good afternoon. On the half of | :42:35. | :42:45. | |
President Obama and Mrs Obama, I wish to express to you their deepest | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
regret that they could not be with us here today as we celebrate the | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
extraordinary life of Muhammad Ali. I first met Muhammad Ali over 45 | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
years ago, through his friendship with my | :42:59. | :43:10. | |
uncle Gene, and he would be so touched that his son is a pallbearer | :43:11. | :43:17. | |
location right today. Because of my connection, the president and First | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
Lady asked if I would read this tribute to him penned by President | :43:22. | :43:32. | |
Obama. "It Was 1980, and epic career was in its twilight. Everybody knew | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
it, probably including the chap himself. -- Champ. Muhammad Ali went | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
into one of his final fights as the underdog and all the smart money was | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
on the new Champ, and in the end of the odd makers were right. A few | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
hours later at 4am, after the loss, after the fans had gone home | :43:59. | :44:00. | |
were writing their final take, is sports writer asked a rest room | :44:01. | :44:11. | |
attendant if he had bet on the fight. -- and the sports writers | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
were writing their final take. The man, black, and on in years, said he | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
had put his money on Ali. The writer asked why? "Why, man said, why? | :44:22. | :44:30. | |
Because he is Muhammad Ali, that's why". | :44:31. | :44:32. | |
APPLAUSE "He said, Mr, I am 72 years old, and | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
I backed the known for giving me my dignity. | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
APPLAUSE To Lonnie and the Ali family, | :44:46. | :44:54. | |
President Clinton, and an arena full of distinguished guests, you are | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
amazing. The man we celebrate today is not just a boxer or a poet, or an | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
agitator or a man of peace, and he was not just a Muslim or a black man | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
or a Louisville kid, although I know you wish that was it, Louisville, | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
this wonderful city. He was not even just the greatest of all time. He | :45:17. | :45:27. | |
was Muhammad Ali. The whole far greater than the sum of its parts. | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
He was bigger, brighter, more influential and more original than | :45:32. | :45:34. | |
just about any one of his error. APPLAUSE | :45:35. | :45:44. | |
-- his era. You could not have made him up and, yes, he was pretty, too. | :45:45. | :45:53. | |
He had fans in every city, every village, every ghetto on the planet. | :45:54. | :46:01. | |
He was loved by foreign heads of state, the Beatles, the British | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
invasion to the teacher to come to him. It seemed sometimes that the | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
Champ was simply too big for America. But I actually think that | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
the world flocked to him and wonder precisely because, as he once put | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
it, Muhammad Ali was America. APPLAUSE | :46:21. | :46:31. | |
Brash, defiant, pioneering, joyful. Never tired, always game to test the | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
odds. He was our most basic freedoms, religion, speech, spirit. | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
He embodied our ability to reinvent ourselves. His life spoke to our | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
original sin of slavery and discrimination on the journey he | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
travelled helped to shock our consciousness and read us on a | :46:56. | :47:03. | |
roundabout path towards salvation -- lead us. Like America, he was always | :47:04. | :47:12. | |
very much work in progress. We him a disservice to gauze up his story, | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
sand down his rough edges, to speak only of floating like butterflies | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
and stinging like bees. Muhammad Ali was a radical, even in radical | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
times. A loud and proud and unabashedly black boys in a gym | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
cruel world. APPLAUSE | :47:34. | :47:43. | |
-- black voice. His jabs knocked some sense into us, yes they did. | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
They brought understanding. There were times when he swung a bit | :47:50. | :47:56. | |
wildly, that's all right. When he wound up accidentally hitting the | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
wrong opponent, as he was the first to admit, but through all his | :48:01. | :48:08. | |
triumphs and failures, seemed to achieve the sort of enlightenment | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
and inner peace we are all striving towards. In the 60s when other young | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
men his age were leaving the country to avoid war or jail, he was asked | :48:18. | :48:25. | |
why he didn't join them. He got angry. He said, he would never | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
leave. His people, in his words, are here. The millions struggling for | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
freedom and justice and equality, and I can do a lot of help, in jail | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
or not, right here in America. APPLAUSE | :48:42. | :48:51. | |
He had every King script from him, his standing, his money, his | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
passion, and very nearly his freedom -- stripped from him. But he still | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
chose America. I imagine he knew that only here in this country could | :49:02. | :49:08. | |
he win it all back. So he chose to help perfect a Union were a | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
descendant of slaves can become the king of the world. | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
APPLAUSE And in the process, lend some | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
dignity to all of us. Maids, porters, students, an elderly | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
bathroom attendant, and help inspire a young mixed kid with a funny name | :49:33. | :49:39. | |
to have the audacity to believe he could be anything, even the | :49:40. | :49:46. | |
president of the United States. APPLAUSE | :49:47. | :49:56. | |
Muhammad Ali was America. Muhammad Ali will always be America. What a | :49:57. | :50:06. | |
man, what a spirit, what a joyous maker -- mighty champion. God bless | :50:07. | :50:16. | |
the greatness of Ali. God bless his family, and God bless this nation we | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
love. Thank you very much." APPLAUSE | :50:20. | :50:39. | |
Redesign gentleman, Lonnie Ali. -- ladies and gentlemen. | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
APPLAUSE upon you, Assalamu alaikum. I said | :50:46. | :51:41. | |
yesterday that I thought Ali had something to do with us all being | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
here, and I suspect I was right. Let me acknowledge our principal Imam, | :51:47. | :52:05. | |
and also Doctor Timothy Giomatti. We appreciate that this reflected the | :52:06. | :52:14. | |
traditions of Muhammad Ali's Islamic faith. And that people have reached | :52:15. | :52:24. | |
out to usi with their prayers. The messages have come in every language | :52:25. | :52:27. | |
from every corner of the globe. From wherever you are watching, nor that | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
we have been humbled by your heartfelt expressions of love -- | :52:31. | :52:36. | |
reached out to usi. It is only fitting we gather in a city to which | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
Muhammad always returned after his great triumphs. A city that has | :52:42. | :52:50. | |
grown as Muhammad has grown. Muhammad never stopped loving | :52:51. | :52:52. | |
Louisville, and we know that Louisville loves Muhammad. | :52:53. | :53:04. | |
APPLAUSE We cannot forget a Louisville police | :53:05. | :53:11. | |
officer, Joe Martin, who embraced a young 12-year-old boy in distress | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
when his bicycle was stolen. APPLAUSE | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
Joe Martin handed young Cassius Clay, and sorry for tripping over | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
that last word, the keys to a future in boxing. A future he could | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
scarcely have imagined. America must never forget that when a cop and an | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
inner-city kid speak to each other, then miracles can happen. | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
APPLAUSE Some years ago during his long | :53:45. | :54:05. | |
struggle with Parkinson's, in a meeting that included his closest | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
advisers, Muhammad indicated that when the end came for him, he wanted | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
us to use his life and his death as a teaching moment for young people | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
for his country and for the world. In effect, he wanted us to remain | :54:22. | :54:24. | |
people who are suffering that he had seen the face of injustice, that he | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
grew up in a segregation and that during his early life he was not | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
free to be who he wanted to be. But he never became embittered enough to | :54:34. | :54:41. | |
quit or to engage in violence. It was a time... | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
APPLAUSE It was a time when a young black boy | :54:47. | :55:01. | |
his age could be hung from a tree as in 1955, with Emmett Till, and his | :55:02. | :55:14. | |
killers went free. Doctor Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, gunned down | :55:15. | :55:21. | |
for what they believed in. For his part, Muhammad faced federal | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
prosecution. He was stripped of his title and his licence to box, and he | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
was sentenced to prison. But he would not be intimidated so as to | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
abandon his principles and his values. Muhammad wants young people | :55:36. | :55:45. | |
of every background to see his life as proof that adversity can make you | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
stronger, it cannot rob you of the power to dream and to reach your | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
dreams. This is why we built the Muhammad Ali Centre, and this is the | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
essence of the Ali Centre message. APPLAUSE | :56:04. | :56:12. | |
Muhammad wants us to see the face of his Islam, true Islam, as the face | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
of love. It was his religion that caused him to turn away from war and | :56:18. | :56:23. | |
violence. For his religion, he was prepared to sacrifice all that he | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
had and all that he was to protect his soul and follow the teachings of | :56:29. | :56:38. | |
profit Muhammed, peace be upon him. Even in death, Muhammad has | :56:39. | :56:46. | |
something to say, that his faith required he take the more difficult | :56:47. | :56:49. | |
road. It is far more difficult to sacrifice oneself in the name of | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
peace than to take up arms in pursuit of violence. | :56:54. | :57:00. | |
APPLAUSE You know, all of his life Muhammad | :57:01. | :57:07. | |
was fascinated by travel. He was childlike in his encounter with new | :57:08. | :57:10. | |
surroundings and new people. He took his World Championship fights to the | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
ends of the earth, from the South Pacific to Europe, to the Belgian | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
Congo. And of course with Muhammad, he believed it was his duty to let | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
everyone see him in person because, after all, he was the greatest of | :57:26. | :57:28. | |
all time. APPLAUSE | :57:29. | :57:38. | |
The boy from Grand Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, grew in wisdom | :57:39. | :57:41. | |
from his journeys. He discovered something new, that the world really | :57:42. | :57:49. | |
wasn't black and white at all. It was filled with many shades of rich | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
colours, languages and religions, and as he moved with ease around the | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
world the rich and powerful were drawn to him, but he was drawn to | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
the poor and the forgotten. APPLAUSE | :58:01. | :58:07. | |
Muhammad fell in love with the masses, and they fell in love with | :58:08. | :58:12. | |
him. The diversity of men and their faiths, in that, Muhammad saw the | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
presence of God. He was captivated by the work of the Dalai Lama, by | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
Mother Teresa and church workers, who gave their lives to protect the | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
poor. When his mother died, he arranged for multiple faiths to be | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
represented at her funeral, and he wanted the same for himself. We are | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
especially grateful for the presence of the diverse faith leaders here | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
today and I would like them to stand once more and be recognised. | :58:40. | :58:41. | |
APPLAUSE Thank you. Thank you very much. | :58:42. | :59:03. | |
You know, as I reflect on the life of my husband, it is easy to see his | :59:04. | :59:13. | |
most obvious talents. His Majesty in the ring as he danced under those | :59:14. | :59:16. | |
lights enshrined him as a champion for the ages. Less obvious was his | :59:17. | :59:23. | |
extraordinary sense of timing. His knack for being in the right place | :59:24. | :59:27. | |
at the right time seemed to be ordained by a higher power. Even | :59:28. | :59:34. | |
whilst surrounded by Jim Crow, he was born into a family with two | :59:35. | :59:37. | |
parents who nurtured and encouraged him. He was placed on the path of | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
his dreams by a white cop, and the headteachers understood his dreams | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
and wanted him to succeed. The Olympic gold medal came and the | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
world started to take notice. A group of successful businessmen in | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
Louisville called the Louisville Sponsoring Group, they saw his | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
potential and helped him build a runway to launch his career. His | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
timing was impeccable as he burst into the national stage. Just as | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
television was hungry for a start to change... -- star. I am Laura | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
Trevelyan. When he challenged the United States | :00:21. | :00:40. | |
government, this chance of success was stolen, to none. But the taming | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
of the decision converged with the rise of discontent in the war. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Public opinion shifted in his direction. It was a stunning | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
reversal of fortunes. When he went to Africa to retain his | :00:59. | :01:15. | |
title from George Foreman, no one give him a chance. But it was called | :01:16. | :01:27. | |
the miracle at four o'clock. He once again became the champion. As the | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
years passed, and although slowed by Parkinson's disease, he was pushed | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
by his faith to help the victims of strife. He travelled to places torn | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
apart by war, like Iraq and Afghanistan. He stunned the world | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
when he secured the release of 15 hostages from Iraq. | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
As his voice softened, his message to: even more meaning. He let a | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
torch which created new light at the 1996 Olympics. | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
Always knew instinctively the road he had to travel. He lived for the | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
moment. He did not will on the Pastore Harbor anxiety about the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
future. He learnt how to laugh. He would play practical jokes on just | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
about everybody. He was sure-footed in his self awareness. His timing | :02:48. | :02:59. | |
was once again poignant. As we face uncertainty in a world of divisions | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
at home, as to who we a people, the life Muhammad of shines through. He | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
was not up to give up on the hour of understanding and the strength of | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
our diversity. He counted among his friends people of all political | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
persuasions and so good in all faith and releases. He may have challenged | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
his government, but he never ran from it. | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
He loved this country and understood the hard choices in the hard road to | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
freedom. He saw the nations school measured by the heart of its people. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
He saw the good in everyone. If you were one of the lucky ones to have | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
met him, you will know what I mean. He woke up every morning thinking | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
about his own salvation. You had to do a lot of good deeds to get there. | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
I think his hope was that his life gave some guidance about what we | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
might achieve for all people. And for what we set to aspire to achieve | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
for ourselves and our families. Thank you. | :04:30. | :04:54. | |
Ladies and gentlemen Mariam Ali. I want to say thank you to the city. | :04:55. | :05:13. | |
All the love you have shown is in your lives have been unbelievable. I | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
want to thank the entire world. My father was loved all over. The | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
reception today was overwhelming but beautiful. We love you as much as | :05:26. | :05:39. | |
you love us. Thank you. As you know, my father loved poetry, promoting | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
his fights. I wrote a piece in honour of him on behalf of my | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
sisters and brothers. It is cold, thank you our dear father. My heart | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
was saw when your spirit soared. Your physical body is no more. But | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
my mind tells different keels over all you taught me, your family and | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
the masses. Most importantly, the belief in God who created humanity | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
to thrive in quality, you fought for a purpose to uphold the print | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
principle that we as a people of the range human rights. Stealing rate | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
into the eyes of operation, you betrayed your your beautiful | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
complexion. Your God-given skills, your independent will and the | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
freedom of your beliefs. As your daughter, I am grateful about all of | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
our conversations about relationships. Dating me to first | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
having a loving relationship with self, refusing to let anyone chip | :07:01. | :07:12. | |
away at my esteem. Thank you, our dear father, for asking us to think | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
about our purpose. Showing us the beauty of service to others. We | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
marvelled that you are sincere love for people as you treated all who | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
approached you with dignity, whether they were rich or poor. Your | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
kindness was unconditional. You never perceived anyone is being | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
beneath you. So many have sheer personal stories about what you have | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
meant to them, as you have exemplified values and qualities | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
that have enhanced their lives. If I had every dollar for every story, I | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
could paint the scary. Your family is so proud of the legacy you left | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
behind. I hope that the history of you can help turn the tide of Sylvie | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
and violence, because we are overwhelmed at the moment by the | :08:07. | :08:18. | |
silence of tragic death. In American soil, in the Middle East or anywhere | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
else, we crave for peace. The piece that you rest and no. We will | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
forever cherish the 74 years you graced this earth. You will be | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
greatly missed. No, we send you off in celebration. A final kiss and | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
peers. As you enter your final round. God 's last boxing bill will | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
sound in heaven. I love you. We all love you. Thank you very much. | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
we are so honoured that you have packed this hall with your love. | :09:03. | :09:47. | |
Thank you all. Thank you so much for being here today. To celebrate my | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
father. You are the greatest father to us. It was God 's will to take | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
you home. Your family will try our best to make you proud and carry on | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
your legacy of giving and love. You have inspired those and the world to | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
be the best version of ourselves. May you live in paradise, free of | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
suffering. You shone in life and know you will shake up the world in | :10:29. | :10:41. | |
darkness. He is looking at is no seeing, I told you I was the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
greatest. No one compares to you. You once said I know where I am | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
going and I know the truth. I do not want to be who you want me to be, I | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
am free to be who I am. No, you are free to be with your creator. We | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
love you so much. Until we meet again, for I, butterfly, fly. | :11:14. | :11:27. | |
Hello. I was born on the birthday of Muhammad and I was named after him. | :11:28. | :12:13. | |
We can all learn from his example. Muhammad When was the stove he | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
wanted to be remembered, he said he would like them to see, he took a | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
few cups of love, one teaspoon of generosity, one quart of laughter, | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
one pinch of concern and he mixed willingness with happiness. He had a | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
lot to see and he started the top well. And he spread it over the | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
course of a lifetime, thank you. Before I begin, I would just like to | :12:45. | :13:24. | |
see I am truly honoured and humbled to be here. I would like to thank | :13:25. | :13:34. | |
the Muhammad Ali centre and his family to allow me to speak. Let me | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
tell you a story. It is a story about a man who refuse to believe | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
that reality was limitation all to achieve the possible. A man who once | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
reached up and touched the heart of an eight-year-old. It was someone | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
whose reflection of herself which mirrored those who could not see | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
past the colour of her skin. Instead of drawing on the pain of the | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
distorted reality, she found strength. Just as this man did when | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
he stood tall in the face of pelting rain and said I made disturbance in | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
the sea of your complacency and I will never stop shaking and making | :14:32. | :14:47. | |
waves. His voice echoed. It echoed through rain. She picked up the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
rocks which were thrown at her and she put them back with a voice so | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
powerful that it turned all the pain she had faced in her life into | :14:57. | :15:08. | |
strength. Into tenacity. No, that general stands before you to tell | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
you that the cry Muhammad Ali of still makes these waves today. | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
That we are to find strength in our idea of identity, whether we are | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
black or white or Asian or Hispanic. Whether we are ready, disabled or | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
able-bodied, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu Christian. His cry represents those | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
who have not been heard. It invalidates the idea that we have to | :15:50. | :16:04. | |
conform to one normal standards. That is what it means to defeat the | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
impossible. Because impossible is not a fact. If possible as an | :16:13. | :16:13. | |
opinion. Impossible is nothing. When I look into this audience, a | :16:14. | :16:34. | |
nice meal. Ice mail to recognise that he has not really gone. He | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
loves the new. He lives in me. He loves in every person he has touched | :16:43. | :16:54. | |
on every corner of this world. Reality was never a limitation for | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
him. For us, just as every punch his opponents through, impossible is | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
never enough to knock a stone because we are Ali. | :17:07. | :17:19. | |
We are greater than the rocks on the pressures that were thrown. We have | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
the ability to empower and inspire and to connect and to unify and that | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
will live on forever. Let me tell you a story about a man. | :17:30. | :17:50. | |
His neighbours Muhammad Ali. He is the greatest of all time. -- his | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
name is. He is from here and he lives in each | :17:57. | :18:15. | |
and every one of us. His story is far from over. Thank you. | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, John Ramsey. First of all, on behalf of of | :18:23. | :18:56. | |
ourselves, our condolences and heartfelt players to the family. | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
Muhammad Ali Was blessed with many gifts. I have got to tell you that | :19:04. | :19:13. | |
when I was in the procession today and saw the tens of thousands of | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
people and the warmth and love and respect that was shown Muhammad Ali | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
for, my heart swelled with pride. I know he was watching from above and | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
absolutely loved it. But I do not think he would be surprised. He | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
would say, the greatest city of all-time. How could it not be good? | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
How can we lose. I am feeling so good I might make a comeback. That | :19:49. | :20:00. | |
is so good I feel. For me, I always felt connected to them even before I | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
met him. I was a little boy, maybe it is the fact I love the local | :20:07. | :20:18. | |
football team. As our relationship evolved, I find that a lot of people | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
and this personal connection with him. That is properly his magic. | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
Initially, for a lot of men my age, it was the athlete I was attracted | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
to. That size and speed and agility Antilles. He was not only world | :20:36. | :20:47. | |
champion three times, but he was the Sports Illustrated athlete of the | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
century. He was a once-in-a-lifetime athlete. But I would argue that the | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
combination of compassion, came this love and the ability to link is up | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
to a once -- made him a once-in-a-lifetime person. He was | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
blessed with many gifts. He was a wise and faithful steward of these | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
gifts. There are many stories. A couple encapsulate what he was all | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
about. I remember in the summer of 2000, making a trip to the Olympics | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
with him. He wanted to go and see a boxing match. 15,000 people were | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
chanting for the United States of America. I was filled with | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
patriotically. The boxer and the obligatory picture with him,. There | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
was photographers everywhere taking pictures and thousands of people | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
cheering for him. Then, Muhammad Ali leaned over and whispered, I want to | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
see the loser. I want to see the loser. I motioned over to an Olympic | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
official. Can you get the loser. There were not tens of thousands of | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
people. There were no photographers. There was just a kid on a stool, E | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
toll over estate, a towel over his head, the lowest point of his fight | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
career. He was defeated. He was at the lowest of the law. But when | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Muhammad Ali Walton, he said, in broken English. Muhammad Ali Started | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
canvassing. The kids started smiling and laughing. He said, you have got | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
ability, I saw you did over there, do not give up. It took this kid | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
from the bottom to the top in an instant. I got in the car and said, | :23:11. | :23:25. | |
I try to be an nice guy, but I did not give them a second thought. You | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
are the greatest. Tell me something I do not already know? But I do not | :23:32. | :23:42. | |
want people to forget he was the finest example of a human that I | :23:43. | :23:52. | |
have ever seen. Of the kindness advocate human possesses. But don't | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
forget, he was the coolest cat in the room. He was good-looking, he | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
had charm, he had charisma. He had swagger before any others even you | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
what swagger was. About 25 years ago, he wanted to go to a | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
restaurant. There was a fireman 's convention and all these guys at the | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
numbers and lush at. They were all up for an autograph. If you want, I | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
will play the bad guy and see that he has to go elsewhere. But in | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
between I suffered, he was happy to do it. One man came up, he said, I | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
said the stand she made in the civil rights movement and against the | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
Vietnam War. I have got a picture of you in front of the fire hose. You | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
are the real hero. You save lives and who your life and the line every | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
day. You are the real deal. But you fought all of them. You fought the | :25:18. | :25:32. | |
beer, the rabbit. You fought Joe Frazier. Smoking Joe Frazier. | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
Muhammad Ali Interrupted and said, but he was not really smoking. I | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
said that was a good link. He said, yes, break that down. But if there | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
was a Kaiser in a third World country, he was on a plane with a | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
cheque. If there were hostages to be released, he was a man of action. | :26:03. | :26:14. | |
One of my favourite quotes, Muhammad Ali said service to others is the | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
rent you pay for your room here on Earth. You are right. And I just | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
want to see, Champ, you have paid up in full. You have paid up in full. | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
He has taught us to love rather than heat, look for common similarities | :26:35. | :26:52. | |
rather than differences. As we all know no, his fight is over, but the | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
decision is in and it does not end. Because of Muhammad Ali, we all win. | :27:04. | :27:14. | |
Thank you so much,. It is time for a man of peace to rest in peace. Thank | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
you so very much. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. We | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
are at the halfway point. I was clean-shaven when this | :27:24. | :28:10. | |
started. All the amazing people here. This appalling of love and | :28:11. | :28:26. | |
respect proves that despite retiring 35 years ago, he is still the | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
champion of the world. -- opal ring. It took a bleak deep breath and | :28:29. | :28:52. | |
side. My mind has been racing through my relationship with this | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
great man. Every moment I can think of is cherished. I will tell you of | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
some personal moments we had together. In 1974, I was just | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
starting as a comedian. It was a three-minute conversation between | :29:12. | :29:21. | |
Muhammad Ali and how, free I would imitate both of them. He had just | :29:22. | :29:33. | |
George Foreman. -- beaten. He was going to post this dinner | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali. But the comedian was not | :29:40. | :29:50. | |
available that they had booked. It was destiny. He said, I have met | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
this young kid and he does a fantastic impersonation of Muhammad | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
Ali. Dick said, OK I will give a try and as he stinks, I will cut him out | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
of the shore. It was my first on television. Hopefully introduce you. | :30:07. | :30:19. | |
No one knows who are. Just see I am one of the closest and dearest | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
friends of Muhammad Ali. I thought, I would go into the make go into my | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
routine and I would be fine. In a can and that was the first time | :30:29. | :30:43. | |
I saw him in person -- then I got into the jammed it was the first I | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
saw him in person. To live in his time. We have the clips and that is | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
amazing but to live in his time... Experiencing the genius of his | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
talent, watching his fights, it was absolutely extraordinary. Every one | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
of his fights had the aura of a Super Bowl. He did things no one | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
else would do. He would predict the round he would knock someone out, | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
then he would do it! He was funny, beautiful, the most perfect athlete | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
you ever saw, and those were his own words. | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
LAUGHTER But he was so much more than a | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
fighter, as time went on. With Bobby Kennedy gone, Martin Luther King | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
gone, Malcolm X gone. Who was there to relate to when Vietnam exploded | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
in our face? There were millions of young men my age eligible for the | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
draft to war we did not believe in. We huddled on the conveyor belt | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
feeding the war machine, but it was Ali has stood up for us by standing | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
up for himself. And after he was stripped of the title, and the right | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
to fight anywhere in the world, he gives speeches at colleges and on | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
television that totally reached me. He was comparable speaking to -- | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
comparable speaking to kings and queens. Even when he lost everything | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
else, she was always himself. Willing to give up everything for | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
what he believed in. His passionate rhetoric for the pride of black | :32:14. | :32:16. | |
people in our country resonated strongly in my house. I grew up in a | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
house dedicated to civil rights. My father was a producer of jazz | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
concerts in New York City and was one of the first to integrate | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
concerts in the 40s and 50s. My uncle and my family, Jewish people, | :32:32. | :32:42. | |
they produced Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday's Famous Song Describing The | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
Lynching Black People In This Country. I Could Not Stop Looking At | :32:46. | :32:51. | |
Him And He Seemed To Go. In Slow Motion, his amazing face, smiling | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
and laughing. I was seated a few six from him, and on the day, all of | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
these athletes, great athletes. The Stealers, all of them. Literary | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
legends. George Plimpton, Neil Simon 's. All fawning over Ali, who then | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
looked at me... With an expression that seemed to say, what is Joel | :33:17. | :33:23. | |
Grey doing here? LAUGHTER | :33:24. | :33:32. | |
I was introduced as one of Ali's closest friends. Two people clapped. | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
My wife and the agent. LAUGHTER | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
I rose, Vera Mora still staring at me, I passed behind him, got to the | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
podium -- Ali was still staring at me. And I said, hello, everyone. | :33:47. | :33:59. | |
Howard Cosell coming to you live from Zaire! Some people pronounce it | :34:00. | :34:11. | |
zare, they are wrong. Then I did the English commentary, George Foreman, | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
he is still fast. I'm still fast, I can be in my bed before the room | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
gets dark! LAUGHTER | :34:19. | :34:26. | |
Howard, I am announcing today I had new religious beliefs, from now on I | :34:27. | :34:36. | |
want to be known as Izzy Izgawitz, an Orthodox Jew, and I am the | :34:37. | :34:44. | |
greatest of all time! The audience exploded. No one had ever done him | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
before and here I was, I could from Long Island, imitating the greatest | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
of all time, and he was loving it. When I was done he gave me this big | :34:53. | :35:00. | |
bear hug and he whispered in my ear, "You are my little brother". Which | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
is what he always called me until the last time I saw him. We were | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
always there for each other. If you needed anything, I was there. He | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
came to everything I asked him to do. Most memorable. He was honorary | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
chairman for a dinner at an event where I was being honoured by the | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
Hebrew University injury so on. The dead of this promotion for it. | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
came to the dinner -- Hebrew came to the dinner -- Hebrew | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
University in Jerusalem. The most famous Muslim man in the world | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
honouring his Jewish friend. APPLAUSE | :35:33. | :35:42. | |
And because he was there, we raised a great deal of money and I was able | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
to use it to endow the University in Jerusalem with something I'd told | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
her about and it was something he loved the theory of and it strives | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
to this day -- I had told him about. It is called Piece In The Performing | :35:58. | :36:08. | |
Arts, with it's really an Arab, Palestinian directors all working | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
together creating works of art. That does not happen without him. I had | :36:13. | :36:20. | |
so many funny unusual moments with him, Howard Cosell's funeral, a very | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
sombre day, to be sure. Closed casket on the stage and Muhammad Ali | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
and I were sitting over there next to each other, and he quietly | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
whispered to me, "Little brother, you think he is wearing his | :36:34. | :36:43. | |
earpiece? " LAUGHTER -- hairpiece. | :36:44. | :36:53. | |
I said, "I don't think so... " " well, then how will God recognise | :36:54. | :37:04. | |
him? " so I said, Champ, once he opens his mouth, God will know. So | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
we started laughing. It was a muffled laugh at first but then we | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
could not contain ourselves. We were at a funeral, me and Muhammad Ali | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
laughing like two little kids at something dirty in church. Then he | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
looked at me and he whispered, "Howard was a good man". One thing | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
he asked me if I would like to run with him one morning, and I said, | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
that would be amazing, where do you run? He said, "I run at this country | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
club, a golf course early in the morning, very private, no one | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
bothers me. We will have a great time." I said I can't run there. It | :37:42. | :37:49. | |
has a reputation for being restricted. They do not allow Jewish | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
members. He was incensed. "I Am a black Muslim and they let me run | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
there. Little brother, I will never run there again." And he didn't. My | :38:01. | :38:12. | |
favourite memory perhaps was 1979. He had just retired and there was a | :38:13. | :38:17. | |
retirement party in Los Angeles for Muhammad and 20 of his closest | :38:18. | :38:20. | |
friends in Los Angeles. I performed a piece I had created. It had grown | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
into a life story, the imitation, and it was called 15 rounds. I play | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
him from the age of 18 until he is 36 ready for the rematch. I posted | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
it on the Internet last week, the Doidge nobody had ever seen before. | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
Of me portraying Ali doing his life, for him, all those years ago in 1979 | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
-- it was of me doing what nobody had ever seen before. There were 20 | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
people there but I was doing it only for him. It was my favourite | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
performance of my life, I got lost on him. I didn't even know where I | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
was at the end of the performance and suddenly I am backstage with | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
another heavyweight champion, Richard Pryor. And he is holding on | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
to me, crying, then I see Ali coming and he has a full head of steam, | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
looking only at me, and he nudged Richard Pryor essayed, and he | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
whispered in my ear, a big bear hug, "Little Brother, you made my life | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
better than it was." But didn't he make all of our lives a little bit | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
better than they were? APPLAUSE | :39:31. | :39:39. | |
That, my friends, is my history with a man. I have laboured to come up | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
with the way to describe the legend. He was a tremendous bolt of | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
lightning created by mother nature out of thin air, a fantastic | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
combination of power and beauty. We have seen still photographs of | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
lightning bolt at the moment of impact, the rushes in strength admin | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
assistant in eloquence and at the moment of impact it might up | :39:59. | :40:10. | |
everything around it. He struck as in the darkest night, in the middle | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
of America's most gathering storm. He toppled the most magnificent of | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
falls and his light shone on America and we could see clearly injustice, | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
inequality, poverty, pride, self-realisation, courage, laughter, | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
love, joy and religious freedom for all. Ali forced us to take a look at | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, infused and | :40:37. | :40:44. | |
challenged us, and ultimately became a messenger for peace. He said later | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
is best when you build bridges between people, not walls. | :40:49. | :40:57. | |
APPLAUSE My friends, only once in 1000 years | :40:58. | :41:16. | |
or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso, read Shakespeare. Ali | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
was one of them and yet in his heart he was still a kid from Louisville | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
who run with the gods, what with the crippled, and smiled with the | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
foolishness of it all. He is gone but he will never die. He was my big | :41:30. | :41:40. | |
brother. Thank you. APPLAUSE | :41:41. | :42:01. | |
gentlemen, Bryant Gumbel. The great Maya Angelou who was herself no | :42:02. | :42:33. | |
stranger to fame said people can forget what you said and did, but no | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
one can ever forget how you made them feel. This applies to Muhammad | :42:38. | :42:45. | |
Ali. The march of time may one day diminish his boasts and his poetry. | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
Perhaps even his butterflies and bees. It may even one day all the | :42:51. | :42:59. | |
memories of the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the jungle, but I | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
doubt any of us will ever forget how Muhammad Ali made us feel. I am not | :43:06. | :43:13. | |
speaking about how proud he made you feel with his exploits or how | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
special he made you feel when you were privileged enough to be his | :43:18. | :43:26. | |
company. I am speaking about how he pricked our hearts and our souls, | :43:27. | :43:34. | |
and our conscience, and made our fights his fights, for decades. | :43:35. | :43:43. | |
People like me, who were once young, semi-gifted, and black, will never | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
forget what he freed within us. Some of us, like him, took pride in being | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
black, bold and brash, and because we were so unapologetic, we were in | :43:57. | :44:05. | |
the eyes of many way too uppity. We were way too arrogant. Yet we | :44:06. | :44:14. | |
revelled in being like him, by stretching society's boundaries as | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
he did he gave us levels of strength and courage that we didn't even know | :44:19. | :44:26. | |
that we had. But Ali's impact was not limited to those of a certain | :44:27. | :44:35. | |
race, or of a second religion, or of a certain mindset -- certain | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
religion. The greatness of this man for the ages was that he was in fact | :44:41. | :44:53. | |
a man for all ages. Has any man ever had a great art to his life? What | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
does it say of a man, any man, that he can go from being viewed as one | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
of his country's most polarising figures to arguably its most | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
beloved? APPLAUSE | :45:10. | :45:21. | |
And to do so without changing his nature or for a second compromising | :45:22. | :45:29. | |
his principles. Yes, you know there were great causes, great national | :45:30. | :45:39. | |
movements, huge divisions, that for Ali's struggle to -- but Harry | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
Truman had it right when he said men make history and not the other way | :45:47. | :45:55. | |
around or as Lauren Hill so nicely put it, consequence is no | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
coincidence. Befitting his stature as the goat he never shied away from | :46:03. | :46:06. | |
a fight, fighting not only the biggest and baddest men of his day | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
inside the ropes, but outside the ring he also went to to to with an | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
array of critics, is seemingly endless succession of societal | :46:17. | :46:24. | |
norms, the architects of a vile and immoral war, the US Government -- he | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
went toe to toe. He even thought, ultimately to his detriment, the | :46:30. | :46:38. | |
limitations of Father Time. Strictly speaking, fighting is what he did. | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
But he broadened that definition by sharing his struggles with us and by | :46:45. | :46:51. | |
viewing our struggles as his. And so it was that at various times he | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
accepted and led battles on behalf of his race, in support of his | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
generation, in defence of his religious beliefs, and ultimately in | :47:05. | :47:12. | |
spate of his disease. I happen to have been overseas working in Norway | :47:13. | :47:24. | |
this past week and my body, Matt, called and said the Champ had been | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
taken to the hospital and that this time it was really serious. Right | :47:29. | :47:35. | |
away, I called Lonnie. She was, as always, a pillar of strength. And as | :47:36. | :47:44. | |
we discussed the medical details, the Doctors' views, and the ugly | :47:45. | :47:56. | |
realities of mortality, Lonnie said, Bryant, the world still needs him. | :47:57. | :48:04. | |
And indeed it does. The world needs a champion who always worked to | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
bridge the economic and social divides that threaten a nation that | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
he dearly loved. The world needs a champion that always symbolised the | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
best of Islam, to offset the hatred of fear. And the world needs a | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
champion who believed in fairness and inclusion for all. Hating people | :48:28. | :48:33. | |
because of their colour is wrong, Ali said, and it doesn't matter | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
which colour does the heating. It is just plain wrong. -- the hating. | :48:40. | :48:51. | |
Yes, we do need Muhammad Ali now. We need the strength and the hope, the | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
compassion and the conviction, that he always demonstrated. But this | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
time our beloved champion is down. And for once he will not get up. Not | :49:04. | :49:14. | |
this time. Not ever again. I want to close with a quick personal story. | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
50 years ago Muhammad Ali defeated George Travalo in Canada | :49:19. | :49:41. | |
and the very next day he showed up in my neighbourhood in the south | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
side of Chicago. As he came out of the home of Elijah Muhammad I | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
happened to be next shooting hoops in a friend's backyard. I of course | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
quickly ran to the fence and for the first in my life I shook the Champ's | :49:56. | :50:07. | |
hand. I was 17, I was awestruck and, man, I thought he was the greatest. | :50:08. | :50:14. | |
Now, half a century and a lifetime of experience as later, I am still | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
awestruck -- experiences later. And I am convinced more than other that | :50:23. | :50:30. | |
Muhammad Ali is the greatest. -- more than ever. To be standing here | :50:31. | :50:41. | |
by virtue of his and Lonnie's request, it is mind-numbing. The | :50:42. | :50:50. | |
honour that Ali has done me today, as he goes to his grave, is one I | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
will take to mind. God bless you, Champ. | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
APPLAUSE -- to mine. | :51:02. | :51:16. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of the United States, the | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
Honourable William Jefferson Clinton. | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
APPLAUSE Thank you. I can just hear Muhammad | :51:29. | :51:46. | |
saying now, "Well, I thought I should be eulogised by at least one | :51:47. | :51:54. | |
president." And by making you the last in a long, long line, I have | :51:55. | :52:01. | |
guaranteed you a standing ovation." LAUGHTER | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
I am trying to think of what has been left unsaid. First, Lonnie, I | :52:08. | :52:18. | |
thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he | :52:19. | :52:28. | |
actually, as Bryant said, picked us all to speak and gave me a chance to | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
come here. I thank you for what you did to make the second half of his | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
life greater than the first. APPLAUSE | :52:37. | :52:45. | |
I thank you for the Muhammad Ali Centre and what it has come to | :52:46. | :52:53. | |
represent to so many people. Here's what I would like to see. I spend a | :52:54. | :52:59. | |
lot of time now, as I get older and older and older, trying to figure | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
out what makes people tick, how delete or note -- how do they turn | :53:06. | :53:13. | |
out the way they are, how do some people refuse to become victims and | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
rides from every defeat? -- rise from every defeat? We have all seen | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
the beautiful pictures of Muhammad Ali with the boy, people visiting | :53:25. | :53:36. | |
and driving by. I think he decided something I hope every young person | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
in here will decide. I think he decided very young to write his own | :53:42. | :53:55. | |
life story. I think he decided, before he could possibly have worked | :53:56. | :54:02. | |
it all out, and before the date and time could work there will on him -- | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
fate and time. He decided that he would not be ever disempowered. He | :54:10. | :54:17. | |
decided that not his race nor his place nor the expectations of others | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
on him, negative or otherwise, would strip from him the power to write | :54:22. | :54:31. | |
his own story. He decided first to use these stunning gifts, his | :54:32. | :54:42. | |
strength and speed in the ring, his wit and way with words in managing | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
the public, and his mind and heart, to figure out at a fairly young age | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
who he was, what he believed, and how to live with the consequences of | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
acting on what he believed. A lot of people make it two steps one and two | :55:02. | :55:09. | |
and still can't quite manage living with the consequences of what he | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
believes. For the longest time, in spite of all the wonderful things | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
that have been said here, I remember thinking when I was a kid, this guy | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
is so smart. And he never got credit for being as smart as he was. And | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
then... APPLAUSE | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
I don't think he ever got the credit, until later, for being as | :55:37. | :55:45. | |
wise as he was. In the end, besides being a lot of fun to be around and | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
basically it universal soldier for our common humanity, I will always | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
think of Muhammad as a truly free man of faith. | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
APPLAUSE And being a man of faith, he | :56:02. | :56:09. | |
realised he would never be in full control of his life. Something like | :56:10. | :56:18. | |
Parkinson's could come along. But being free, he realise that life | :56:19. | :56:26. | |
still was open to choices. It is the choices that Muhammad Ali made that | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
have brought us all here today. In honour and love. | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
APPLAUSE And the only other thing I would | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
like to see and I think we all need to really think about is that the | :56:45. | :56:53. | |
first part of his life -- like to say. Is that the first part of his | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
life was dominated by the Triumph of his truly unique gifts. We should | :56:59. | :57:01. | |
never forget them, we should never stop looking at the movies, we | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
should thank Will Smith for making his movie. We should all be thrilled | :57:06. | :57:13. | |
at what a thing of beauty it was, but the second part of his life was | :57:14. | :57:18. | |
more important. Because he refused to be present by a disease that kept | :57:19. | :57:26. | |
him hamstrung longer than Nelson Mandela was kept in prison in South | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
Africa -- he refused to be imprisoned by a disease. And the | :57:31. | :57:37. | |
second half of his life, in that comedy perfected gift that we all | :57:38. | :57:45. | |
have. Every single solitary one of us have guesseds of mind and heart. | :57:46. | :57:57. | |
-- gifts of mind and heart. It is just the third away to release them | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
in ways large and small. I wanted to ask Lonnie if she remembered a time | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
they were still living in Michigan and I gave a speech in South West | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
Michigan at the economic club there, and it was sort of a ritual that | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
when a president leaves office, you know, you had to get reactivated. | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
Nobody plays a song when you walk into the room any more. You don't | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
really know what you're supposed to do... | :58:23. | :58:24. | |
LAUGHTER And this club, called The Economic | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
Club, I think. They are used to acting like you still deserve to be | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
listened to, so they came to this dinner with me, they sat with me, | :58:37. | :58:43. | |
and he knew, somehow, he knew that I was a little off my feet that night. | :58:44. | :58:49. | |
I was trying to imagine how to make this new life. And so he told me it | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
will eat bad joke. LAUGHTER | :58:55. | :59:01. | |
-- he told me a really bad joke. And he told it's all well and laughed so | :59:02. | :59:04. | |
hard that I totally got over it and had a great time. He had that feel, | :59:05. | :59:13. | |
you know, there is no textbook for that. Knowing where somebody else is | :59:14. | :59:18. | |
in their head, picking up the body language. Then Lonnie and Muhammad | :59:19. | :59:27. | |
got me to come here when we opened the Muhammad Ali Centre, and I was | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
trying to be incredibly, you know, grey-haired elder statesmen, | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
dignified, I have to elevate this guy, so I am saying this stuff in | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
very high to mine which, and Muhammad sneaks up behind me and put | :59:43. | :59:45. | |
his fingers up like this. LAUGHTER | :59:46. | :59:51. | |
Finally, after all the years we have been friends, my injuring image of | :59:52. | :00:07. | |
him is like a little reel in three shots -- enduring. The boxer I | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
thrilled to as a boy, the man I watched take the last steps to light | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
the Olympic flame when I was president... | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
APPLAUSE And I will never forget it. I was | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
sitting there in Atlanta. By then we knew each other. By then I felt I | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
had some sense of what he was living with, and still I was weeping like a | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
baby, seeing his hands and legs shake and knowing that, by God, he | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
was going to make those last few steps. The flame would be lit, the | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
fight would be one. I knew it would happen. -- the fight would be won. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
APPLAUSE And then this. The children whose | :00:53. | :01:09. | |
lives he touched. The young people he inspired. It is the most | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
important thing of all. So I ask you to remember that. We all have a Ali | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
story. It is the gift we all have that should be most honoured today. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Because he released them to the world. Never wasting a day, that the | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
rest of us could see any way. Feeling sorry for himself that he | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
had Parkinson's, knowing that more than three decades of his life would | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
be circumscribed in ways that would be chilling to the naked eye. But | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
with the free spirit it made life bigot not smaller, because other | :01:59. | :02:10. | |
people, -- bigger, made other people say would you will get that? Look at | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
that. May not be able to run across a bring any more, or dodge and | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
exhaust anybody any more, but he is bigger than ever because he is a | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
free man of faith sharing the gifts we all have. We should honour him by | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
letting our gifts go among the world as he did. God bless you, my friend. | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Go in peace. APPLAUSE | :02:39. | :03:14. | |
Ali! There will be time for that. But right now is the time for | :03:15. | :03:28. | |
silence, so will everyone rise and observe a period of silence, reflect | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
on what the champion meant to you as the Ali family exits. | :03:37. | :04:54. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
APPLAUSE Be seated. Be seated, you seated. | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
The programme is not over. We are trying to create space for the | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
family to be able to exit in peace. Please be seated. We want to make | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
prayer, we want to share something before we close the programme, so | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
please be seated. As we move towards the end of the programme, which will | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
occur in a couple of minutes, I will be remiss if I didn't say the | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
following. Indeed, as we all know, and anyone who lives within a ghetto | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
or barrio in the United States, there are reckless, violent | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
policeman. That is a fact. But there are also policeman and women who are | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
dedicated professionals who are compassionate, who have great | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
concern for their communities, and I can say with all honesty and | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
openness during my past week in Louisville Kentucky, in the past | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
five days, myself, my wife, everyone I have spoken to, has commented on | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
the professionalism, the dignity of the policeman and women in | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
Louisville, contact you. -- Kentucky. That we have interacted | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
with. I'm sure there are bad apples here too, but as they say, one bad | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
apple does not spoil the whole bunch. They asked me to make a | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
prayer to close this service, but Reverend Cosby threw down the | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
gauntlet with that Western Pong, so I will have to respond -- poem. This | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
palm was written in Muhammad Ali's house, and Mohammed Arlene was the | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
first one to read this poem, and I am glad Mike Tyson left. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
LAUGHTER There are two parts. Part one is Ali | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
the fight. He floated like a butterfly and staying like B. The | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
greatest writer of this word is yet to see. His opponents agree on one | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
thing, they all got it right. In the ring with miss your life was in | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
danger that night. Had he read during the time of Tyson, and so on, | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
his superiority over the former would be telling. Handy for Tyson at | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
the height of his career, on the list of heavy weight champions their | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
names would not appear. If reindeer could box, he would have fought | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
them, if President could fight, he would have for Richard Nixon, for | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
his right was filled with power and his left was relentless. He beats | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
people so bad he would have to engage in acts of repentance. When | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
you discuss it was the greatest heavyweight of all time, to mention | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
any name other than Ali's is a crime. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
This is BBC News with coverage of tributes to boxing legend Ali, and a | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
memorial service in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. It follows a | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
procession to the streets where he grew up as a child and spent the | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
winter of his life over the last two hours to stop we have seen Muslim, | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Christian and Jewish, other speakers, speaking of his fight for | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
civil rights, while a message from President Obama raised his | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
originality. It was an interfaith event that took place hours after | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
thousands turned out in the streets of Louisville, many from all over | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the world and America, to say farewell to his covenant as it | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
passed through the city streets. Ali was then buried in a private | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
ceremony attended just by friends and family -- coffin. The ex- | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
heavyweight champion and activist died aged 74. All of those honours, | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
all of those speeches were rounded off with the former president of the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
United States, Bill Clinton, a very close friend and supporter of | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
Muhammad Ali. We believe that coverage to bring | :09:41. | :09:53. | |
you some breaking news that broke while that memorial service was | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
taking place -- we leave. Rod Stewart and Tim Peake have been | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
named in this week's Queen's birthday honours list. Other honours | :10:03. | :10:19. | |
include the -- Penelope Wilton. He has been entertaining audiences for | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
decades, and has now received a knighthood and becomes so Rod | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Stewart. Penelope Wilton has also been on it, so now Maggie Smith | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
joins the honours. I imagined them surrounded by nannies and | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
governesses starting iron to send in our review after tea. But it was an | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
hour after every day. I see. How tiring. Tim Peake says he is | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
honoured and privileged to be made a CNG, an award given for achievement | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
outside the UK, in his case, space. Ant and Dec say they are honoured to | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
be awarded for their broadcasting careers. Brian Blessed also | :11:14. | :11:26. | |
honoured. It is one of Yorkshire. Whatever people say, people do like | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
receiving awards, and I am absolutely delighted. Cock-a-hoop! | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
In the world of sport, Alastair Cook, the youngest player to score | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
10,000 test runs, is made easy BA, as is Alan Shearer, for his | :11:44. | :11:56. | |
community work. -- CBE. I am absolutely delighted. The Chelsea | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
manager who guided the team to a league and FA Cup double becomes an | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
MBE. Of course, as in previous years, the vast majority of people | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
being honoured by Her Majesty are people who never expected to be in | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
the public eye. This youth worker played a crucial role in uncovering | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
the scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. She has | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
been made an MBE. I am pleased and proud of got it, but also saddened | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
for the reasons I got it, and never did this for any kind of award. I | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
did it to try to get the voices of those who were being ignored for so | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
long out there. Just one of many being honoured for making a | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
difference in their committee. -- community. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
Because of our continuing coverage of Muhammad Ali's service, we | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
haven't brought you the papers. Let's have a look now. A poll | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
suggest a massive swing towards Brexit with a picture of Rod | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Stewart, who has been named in the suit's Queen's but they honours -- | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
this year's. David Cameron accused of using the honours list to dish | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
out accolades to supporters of his campaign to keep Britain in the EU. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
The main story in the Times is a warning by Germany's finance | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
minister that says Britain will be shut out of the single market if | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
they vote for Brexit. Europe's migrant crisis, and claims that a | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
think tank says it is costing EU member countries are to ?20 billion | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
alone. The Telegraph's Todd's story is the so-called panicked reaction | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
to polls that suggest loading support for the league campaign. In | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
the Guardian leads for calls for the Labour Party to boost its campaign | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
to keep Britain in the EU. There is a rally in bonds caused by investing | :14:02. | :14:11. | |
jitters. And the Daily Mirror has more on why the partner of the | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
former EastEnders actress Sian Blake says he killed her and her two | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
children. Let's bring you up-to-date with the latest headlines. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
The headlines on BBC News: A final farewell to one of the greatest | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Muhammad Ali's memorial takes place in his hometown | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Astronaut Tim Peake is among those recognised | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
in the Queen's Birthday Honours, just released. | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
England football fans have again clashed with French police | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
in Marseille, where the team play their opening match in Euro | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Apologies, slightly later than scheduled because of the late | :14:43. | :14:58. | |
running of the memorial service for Muhammad Ali, in a fume minutes we | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
will have an interview with Nigel Farage. First, a special Euro 2016 | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
edition of | :15:10. | :15:11. |