Muhammad Ali — "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some p…"

My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, raped and killed my mother and father. ... How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.
Muhammad Ali — Muhammad Ali Modern · Boxer, activist, greatest of all time

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Interview about refusing induction into the U.S. Army

Date: 1967

War & Violence

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