Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight Page #2

the third.

What's your school,

Connolly?

Missouri.

Sam Edelstein.

The first.

I have been here

6 months.

Covert here is

a second termer.

Guess that makes you

the boss.

Oh, I guess it does.

What's with

- with all the lights in there?

That's the justice's eyesight,

and it's getting worse.

That's you.

Yale, Harvard,

Columbia, Chicago.

That's the norm.

It's tradition.

I don't believe we've ever had a clerk

from the University

of Missouri before.

Yeah, no black clerks,

no women clerks.

I guess that's

tradition, too.

Great. Another bleeding heart liberal

Well, you've landed with

the wrong justice, my friend.

Plus, the Chief

is Nixon's man,

and another conservative has just been

appointed

to the Court.

Thank you, God, a change is gonna come.

Ow.

Why do you insist

on being called

Muhammad Ali now?

That's the name given to

me by my leading teacher-

the Honorable

Elijah Muhammad.

That's my original name.

That's a black man name.

Cassius Clay was my slave

name. I'm no longer a slave.

What does it mean?

"Muhammad" means

"worthy of all praises"

and "Ali" means

"most high. "

This will be an organization

that will give the black man

in this country

the right to defend himself.

It will encourage him

to defend himself,

and it will teach him

how to defend himself.

By any means necessary.

This is the regular

dance that I use

just before the shuffle.

I'm moving and I'm moving

and I'm jumping around

and just before you know it...

a split second right after that

shuffle is the big punch.

We are 22 million people

who don't have our names.

We were named after

our slave masters.

So teaches the Honorable

Elijah Muhammad.

Once you become free,

find out who you are,

then you will start saying.

"I am the greatest. "

Over there.

Please be certain

to escort all the justices

to their

designated seats.

Justice Harlan, sir.

I don't want

Justice Brennan

sliding in beside Justice

Marshall, for example.

Liberals scheme.

Let's keep them

apart, shall we?

Hello, John.

Chief.

Petrus, I hear

your daughter

graduated

cum laude.

Indeed she did,

Mr. Justice.

That's wonderful.

Please congratulate

her on my behalf.

I will.

Thank you, sir.

Let's walk over together,

shall we, John?

Oh. Thank you.

I have big plans for

the Court this year.

Oh? During my first year,

it became quite

clear to me

there was something

wrong with the design

of the courtroom

bench.

We're all seated straight in a line.

We can't hear

each other.

We can't

see each other.

It's terrible

acoustics.

Here's

my solution.

I'm going to curve the bench. Ah.

You see, that way,

we can see each other.

We can hear

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