In Ireland, Muhammad Ali recites a poem about a prison riot [4 min - DivideHistory.com]

Thank You for posting this Elizabeth. The 40th Anniversary of Attica conference at SUNY-Buffalo Law School ("Attica 40") Facebook page has presenters including a historian from UNH-Manchester who reviewed the phone conversation transcripts of then Governor Nelson Rockefeller and President Nixon concerning the Attica uprising. One of the other presenters allowed me to put closure on the loss of a comrade who died of double-ought buckshot wounds to the back, with powder burns-which the Monroe County Coroner had noted in 1971. That inmate, Elliot David Barkley ("L.D.") was reportedly trying to stop another prisoner from stabbing a N.Y. State Trooper involved in retaking the prison, when "L.D." was shot. I think Muhammed Ali's poem seems a fitting tribute to someone who sought to try to maintain whatever semblance of humanity could be, in that environment. I owe a debt of gratitude to L.D., for intervening [in a non-violent fashion] when I had a "run-in" with the "Hitman for A block" (a prisoner already serving a life term, who had nothing to lose if he killed someone else). A sizable number of [non-violent] "Youthful Offenders" who had "no criminal record" were being housed there at that time (1971). I later was a member of the American Arbitration Association's National Center for Dispute Settlement's [nationwide] (multi-ethnic/gender) Prison Dispute Mediation Team of former guards and prisoners, and dispute resolution staff, started by another former colleague [James Ellis] of Elliot David Barkley. 

Thank you, Pamela, for your sharing your thoughts about this amazing and inspirational human being. Elizabeth 

Muhammad Ali was a beautiful, beautiful man for so many reasons.   Fortunately, he LIVED so brave, so free, so true that we can benefit from his genius and example.  Thanks for sharing.