What people don't know about Muhammad Ali

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Aside from him being a boxing legend, the great Muhammad Ali was perhaps best known for his explanation for why he was not willing to be drafted to fight in Vietnam back in 1967, when he stated publicly:

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called black person people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end.

 

I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.

If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”

 

What is not widely publicized or known, was Muhammad Ali's limitless support for the Palestinian cause, and the right of Palestinians to liberate their homeland.

 

Muhammad Ali visited Palestinian refugees camps in Lebanon back in 1974, he also attempted  in 1985 (unsuccessfully) to secure the release of thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli detention camps in the then occupied Southern Lebanon.

 

Muhammad Ali thank you for being you, and may you have a pleasant eternal journey.

 

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And, more illegal and immoral wars continue to this day... Fight the Nazi-Fascists... Good man that Ali (The Greatest)  Insert other media