Muhammad Ali is one of the most known faces on planet Earth known not just for being the best fighters in the history of boxing but for being one of the most knowledgeable person of the 20th century. Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. In Louisville, Kentucky, on January 14 1942. He changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964 After converting from Muslim to Islam.
Muhammad Ali refused Army induction on April 28, 1667 saying "I aint got no quarrel with those Vietcong" He was convicted of draft envasion, sentenced for 5 years prison,and fined $ 100000 and was banned from boxing for 5 years as his case was appealed and returned to the ring on October 26, 1970, knocking out Jerry quarry in Atlanta in the third round. Ali a Muslim at …show more content…
Stepping up and becoming a leader. In the time of civil rights movements. His message of black pride and resistance to the white dominating in population. He is trying to make a change and get rid of brutal racial discrimation.
Ali wasn’t alone for long in his anti-war stance. While his legal case continued, he kept up his anti-war rhetoric, based on arguments against the systematic classism and racism decried by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. His strump speech was simple, but powerful and impassioned: "I won’t be used by powerful white men as a tool to kill other people who are fighting for their own beliefs and freedoms, and neither should you, especially if you’re poor and/or black".
He stated while speaking, "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 100000 miles from my home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so called negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?" He said the Vietnamese had nothing against him. Ai used his fame gained from boxing from boxing to express his experience on how rough it was in the ring to. A different kind of fight which was, a symbolizing campaign between racism and
Muhammad Ali refused Army induction on April 28, 1667 saying "I aint got no quarrel with those Vietcong" He was convicted of draft envasion, sentenced for 5 years prison,and fined $ 100000 and was banned from boxing for 5 years as his case was appealed and returned to the ring on October 26, 1970, knocking out Jerry quarry in Atlanta in the third round. Ali a Muslim at …show more content…
Stepping up and becoming a leader. In the time of civil rights movements. His message of black pride and resistance to the white dominating in population. He is trying to make a change and get rid of brutal racial discrimation.
Ali wasn’t alone for long in his anti-war stance. While his legal case continued, he kept up his anti-war rhetoric, based on arguments against the systematic classism and racism decried by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. His strump speech was simple, but powerful and impassioned: "I won’t be used by powerful white men as a tool to kill other people who are fighting for their own beliefs and freedoms, and neither should you, especially if you’re poor and/or black".
He stated while speaking, "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 100000 miles from my home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so called negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?" He said the Vietnamese had nothing against him. Ai used his fame gained from boxing from boxing to express his experience on how rough it was in the ring to. A different kind of fight which was, a symbolizing campaign between racism and