On 29th April 1967 , Muhammad Ali refused to fight the Vietnam war and the champion heavyweight boxer was stripped of the world title, had his boxing license suspended globally and imprisoned for five years after refusing US Army draft. I read about Cassius Clay in early 1980s (when I was about 12 years old) in an article published in a Sri Lankan sports digest called Kreeda . Muhammed Ali famously said in a post boxing match interview that my conscious does not let me shoot my brother or some darker people or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America , shoot them for what ? they never called me nigger ! . An estimated 2 million Vietnamese and 60 thousand Americans died in the Vietnam war which ended in 1975. And in the early 2000s I visited the war museum in Hanoi Vietnam and saw first hand the real pictures of war, the unimaginable memories of human brutality. To me Muhammed Ali is a hero not because he was the heavy weight champion of the world , but because he stood up to his beliefs and said no to war. A mans success is not measured by his victories but by what he gives up for common good. Listen to the great mans words youtube/watch?v=HeFMyrWlZ68
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:35:44 +0000
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