Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10, 000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10, 000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years. Muhammad Ali
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very peaceful man and doesn’t believe in violence. He believed in peace and peace is the only way to solve everything.

If you have a problem with any one, just go and talk to them. I don’t like war at all, I want to make friends with every person on earth and bring them together through love and respect for one another. I don’t believe in hitting or hurting people because they make mistakes or do bad things to me or my family.

So if I fight with them, then we both end up wrong and it makes no sense at all.

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