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Muhammad Ali's service

What constitutes service to country? Serving time in the military? Devoting yourself to making the world better than you found it?
Muhammad Ali put everything on the line in the cause of justice ...

"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."

—Ali Refuses Army Oath, is Stripped of Boxing Crown
NYT, April 28th 1967

nytimes.com/books/98/10/25/specials/ali-army.html
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