‘My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother…shoot them for what?’

Posted by | June 4, 2016 09:30 | Filed under: Politics War & Peace

Republish
Reprint


Muhammad Ali risked jail and was stripped of his title for refusing to go to war.

“I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.”

When speaking about why he was refusing conscription:

“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, rape and kill my mother and father. … Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”

Click here for reuse options!
Copyright 2016 Liberaland
By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.

9 responses to ‘My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother…shoot them for what?’

  1. Buford2k11 June 4th, 2016 at 09:52

    this man was Honest, trustworthy, and encompassed most of Mankind’s humanity…compassion, and love for all of us…I tear up thinking just how much he inspired others to do what is right, and to stand up for your heartfelt beliefs…If I have a childhood hero, Cassius Clay, Mohammad Ali would be the person I would name…

  2. Roctuna June 4th, 2016 at 09:56

    Ali actually lived his “sincerely held religious beliefs” and was willing to pay the price if it came to that. He was a principled man of peace.

    • Larry Schmitt June 4th, 2016 at 10:12

      And unlike the phony “Christians” like Kim Davis, his beliefs did not involve discriminating against someone else. Davis wanted to still be paid for not doing her job, so her “protest” involved no sacrifice on her part.

      • Suzanne McFly June 4th, 2016 at 11:02

        Exactly, those are the “christians” who killed religion in our country. People see them as crooks and they associate the church with money grubbers. They can claim Islam is a violent religion due to a few just as a I can claim a few bad “christians” have ruined an entire religion for generations.

  3. Buford2k11 June 4th, 2016 at 09:59

    “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”…In loving memory of a Great Man…

    • Larry Schmitt June 4th, 2016 at 10:25

      And his true greatness had nothing to do with his skill as a boxer.

  4. fredoandme June 4th, 2016 at 12:06

    for this alone he should be kindly and fondly and forever remembered.

    a defining moment unlike any other.

  5. Western Lib June 4th, 2016 at 15:46

    He was a much better person than he was a boxer, and he was a great boxer.

Leave a Reply