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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles fro

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 – Muhammad Ali

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Its just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali

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Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. – Muhammad Ali

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