"No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of white slavemasters over dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end."

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Muhammad Ali, 1967

45 years ago today, Ali was convicted of draft evasion for his refusal to support the Vietnam war. The Supreme Court later overturned his conviction in Clay v. United States (1971). 

(via paxamericana)