cassius clay and henry clay parted ways because cassius clay had a take no prisoners style. he released a letter to henry clay had written him privately in which henry clay indicated more of a dislike for slavery then he talked about publicly, and that he was probably privately more for emancipation then he let on. but he did not want the letter released publicly and cassius clay released it. the parted ways and never spoke again. henry clay did not have any place for the abolitionists and the emancipationist, or for his cousin cassius. caches could make people mad. he had a printing press and would print all kinds of letters and call up the slave traders. one night in a small town near lexington, he was ambushed from the back. they came at him, square turner and the boys, with knives and cudgels, stabbing him in the back repeatedly. he falls to the ground. tom turner takes a pistol and holds it to his head and fires, and it misfires. he told the to his head again and it misfires. the third time it misfires, cassius clay has time to reach for his knife and he gets the turner

you did not mess with cassius clay. he had a sort of take no prisoners style. nry clay was probably probably -- probably probably more for a different stance. they never spoke again. henry clay did not have a place for the emancipation of will for his cousin, cassius clay. he would call out the slave traders. one night, in a small town near lexington, and he was stabbed in the back repeatedly, and he falls to the ground. tom turner takes a pistol and holds it to his head and fires, and it misfires, and he does it again, and it misfires, and the third time he does it, cassius clay used his ninth -- knife and gutted him. there are sometimes we should fight for what is right and not take the easy way out. [applause] i think we have to ask who are our heroes? are we in fraud by the great unanswered pater? what about his cousin, cassius clay? corsa centuries of recorded history, we were plagued by smallpox. in about 1721, the smallpox plague was coming, and it was a terrible and awful disease and an awful death, and sometimes as many as 50% of people who got smallpox

cassius clay and henry clay parted ways because cassius clay had a take no prisoners style and released letter that henry clay had written to him privately, in which he had indicated more of a dislike of slavery that he talked about publicly, and was probably privately for emancipation and the lead on. he did not want a letter released publicly, and cassius clay released it, and they never spoke again. henry clay did not have any place for the abolitionist. did not have any place for the abolitionists or his cousin cassius. he could make people mad. he had a printing press, could call out the slave traders. one night, it in a small town in the lexington, he was ambushed. they came at him from the back with knives, stabbing him in the back repeatedly. he falls to the ground. squired turner's son tom turner takes a pistol to his head and fires, but he misfires. he holds it to his head again and misfires. the third time, it misfires, then cassius clay has time to reach for his knife, and cuts the boy. he did not take any prisoners but fought for what was right. there are times when we shou

. >> guest: very young cassius clay and that's when cassius clay and i got into it because the state of new york was trying to decide whether they are going to abolish boxing in the state of new york and mohammed when he was cassius clay at the time was asked to testify in front of the senate committee as the gold medalist of the olympics and i was asked to testify as a former convict who needed boxing in order to make a living. and so we were standing outside of the senate chamber in albany, and a little boy walked up and asked cassius clay for his autograph and at that time cassius clay's image was that of dr. gandy carrying a black walking stick and cassius clay mocked the paper out of that child's hand, and i told cassius you are a big point, nothing but the pump and from that moment on, we didn't get along. he was in the stable look trying to get all of them to both me. another one was jimmy ellis who became the heavyweight champion of the world but, you know, this was a thing between cassius clay and the hurricane, to images clashing together. but after that, after that, when m

he had a cousin by the name of cassie's place -- cassius marcellus clay.a boxer named after him. he was a great abolitionist. when he would come to the lectern, he would put down his bible and to enough. you did not mess with him. -- when he came to the lectern, he would put down his bible and his bowie knife. you did not mess with him. he released a letter that henry sent to him privately where he expressed more of a dislike for slavery than he expressed publicly and that he was probably probably more for emancipation then he let on. he did not want the letter released publicly. cassius released it and they parted ways and did not speak again. henry did not have any place for the abolitionist. cassius would make people mad. he would print out letters and call out the slave traders. one night in a small town near lexington, he was ambushed. squire turner and his boys came after him. they stabbed him in the back repeatedly. he fell to the crowd. tom turner held a pistol to his head and it misfired. he does it again and it misfired. the third time it misfire

another was jimmy who became the heavy weight champion of the world, but this was a thing between cassius claynd the hurricane, two personalities clashing together, but after that, when muhammad became muhammad, he was muhammad. he would do anything i asked him to do. i mean, that was because he refused to go to vietnam or refused to go into the military, so they gave him a five year sentence for that which eventually was done away with, so that was -- i don't know, but -- >> host: it led you to the bond, but i noticed you mention in your book that the person that helped you with your stuttering was a man who then gave you an islamic name, and that's your name? >> guest: no, no. >> host: what was the name he gave you? >> guest: asal abu. >> host: you were never known as that in the ring? >> guest: no. >> host: you connect that name islam, with stuttering. >> guest: i do. he stumbled upon me when we were getting ready to jump out of airplanes in the military, and rather than just stumbling away, this person stopped and made me realize that i had a problem, that my inability to talk and my feeli