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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Rev. Al Sharpton: Muhammad Ali redefined how we gage success [Watch (HLS stream): Rev. Al Sharpton: Muhammad Ali redefined how we gage success](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ekksnz2f.m3u8) (3:51)  _Published 2016-06-06. Reverend Al Sharpton explains why Muhammad Ali's message remains relevant today._ --- Jul 27, 2023 8:13 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Sympathy, love will be earmarks of Muhammad Ali's lasting legacy](/video/OJw6JvYu/) ### Sympathy, love will be earmarks of Muhammad Ali's lasting legacy [Rev. Al Sharpton: Muhammad Ali's death may cause athletes to reevaluate their priorities](/video/RLRYN1fz/) ### Rev. Al Sharpton: Muhammad Ali's death may cause athletes to reevaluate their priorities [Neil Leifer shares surprising text message he received from Muhammad Ali's widow](/video/5OVPTFi4/) ### Neil Leifer shares surprising text message he received from Muhammad Ali's widow --- ## Transcript In what ways is Muhammad Ali's message relevant today as it was in the late 60's and 70's? It's relevant because Muhammad Ali redefined how we ought to gauge success and celebrity. He showed that real people that ought to emulated and looked up to Are people that stand for something, and are willing to put great risk and sacrifice behind their stand. At the ultimate level of success in his career, achieving the Heavyweight Championship and all the perks, the endorsements, and all that goes with it, he stood up for what he believed. Lost it all, sentenced to jail and was able to overcome it and the Supreme Court sent him to jail, but he lost three years of his career. So he redefined the values That we as Americans ought to gauge the people that we give celebrity and success status to. Mm- hm. You are not a Muslim, but you are a religious leader. Why do you think Ali was drawn to Islam in the 1960's? What do you think that offered him? I mean I don't know. We talked a lot about that over the years. I'm 12, 13 years younger so I was almost a generation behind and I would say to him, what was it so about Islam? and I think it was, he grew up in the. He said, Reverend, you were born in the north and I was in the deep south where we had to sit in the back to the bus and there were black and white water fountains, and then even after I won the Olympics I couldn't eat in restaurants. So I think it was the appeal initially of that, and than I think he found his role to God there. This discovery of being at peace with himself, and I've always believed the different roles to one God, and we would talk about that, and that was his role. It's rear today that I've to speak out on social issues to the extend that Muhammad Ali did. What do you think? I think that we have the values as America. Has changed a lot and I think that Ali's death may bring us back to reevaluating those values cause we've gone from athletes and entertainers Black Ali Micheal Jebrown and others that stood up for things to where now its about flashing literally hundred dollar bills on Instagram or showing the latest model car or what kind of mansion you have. I remember Down through the years, I would be with Ali certain places on certain calls that he was supporting on a certain event. And he would literally, if he had an hour of time at a hotel, he didn't want to sit in the hotel and watch television or talk. He'd just go out and mingle among the people. And he knew he was gonna be mobbed. You have celebrities today that build walls to protect them from their fans. Ali, his security would be crazy because they said we cant get him to stop going towards his people, towards his fans, towards the people that loved him and I think this whole Values of now we respect those that are more distant from us, that don't express concern about our everyday life. I think that if anything in our memory of Ali, we ought to have this discussion about whether we need to get back to really dealing With people that come from the ground up rather than the top down. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Rev. 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