I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn’t eat. Thought I’d put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, ‘We don’t serve niggers here.’ I said, ‘That’s okay, I don’t eat ’em.’ But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

Muhammad Ali