Muhammad Ali on why he refused to be drafted to the US Army to fight in Vietna

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Afshin Rattansi

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Muhammad Ali on why he refused to be drafted to the US Army to fight in Vietnam: “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…shoot them for what? They never called me n*****, they never lynched me…how can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”

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On this day in 1963, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images. He burned himself alive to protest the repression and violence of the unpopular US-backed dictator Ngo Dinh Diem. The US'

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