bill Clinton at ali funeral continues on Ali, whom he calls “a universal soldier for our common humanity”: The first part of his life was dominated by the triumph of his truly unique gifts. We should never forget them. We should never stop looking at the movies. But the second part of his life was more important because he refused to be imprisoned by the disease that kept him hamstrung longer than Nelson Mandela was kept in prison in South Africa. In the second half of his life he perfected gifts that we all have. Every single solitary one of us have gifts of mind and heart.