Muhammad Ali: Taking a stand against the vietnam War
Our FREEDom
Mahummad Ali stood for our freedom by taking a stand against the Vietman war. According to research, in April 1967, he refused induction. Muhammad Ali’s title was taken away from him. He was sentenced to a five-year prison term. He appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in 1971 his conviction was finally reversed. He did not go to prison, but was forced to wait four years before regaining his boxing license. In 1974, Muhammad Ali reclaimed the world heavyweight champion title, defeating George Foreman in what was known as the Rumble in the Jungle, an historic boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo .(democracynow.org, web Sept. 16, 2016) |
His Faith
According to research, In 1964, Ali converted to the religion of Islam. He first changed his name from Cassius Clay to Cassius X, but later changed it to Muhammad Ali. A few years later he was drafted into the army. He said he didn't want to join the army because of his religion. Because he refused to join the army, the boxing association didn't allow him to fight for three years starting in 1967.(Rosenburg, Duckster, Sept 09, 2016)
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Our future Justice
Muhammad Ali’s most famous act of social activism. He was strip him of his best fighting years, cost him millions of dollars, forever alter his image and eventually send him into debt. This began with one off-hand quote: “Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. (Muhammad Ali)
According to Muhammad Ali quotes on justice, war and racism in Fusion, the following quote summarizing that Ali stood for our future justices... “I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.” (Muhammah Ali) |