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58 years ago:

“Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

For this refusal—for standing on faith in a country that demanded obedience—he was made an example. The response came swift: they stripped him of his title, suspended him from boxing, fined him $10,000, and, on June 20, 1967, sentenced him to five years in federal prison.
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Video: Muhammad Ali Refuses Army Induction, April 28, 1967.
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