Muhammad Ali is dood .......Weigerde o.a. dienst tijdens Vietnam-oorlog. "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 Negro 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 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 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."
Muhammad Ali is dood .......Weigerde o.a. dienst tijdens Vietnam-oorlog.
BeantwoordenVerwijderen"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 Negro 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
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
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."