Muhammad Ali at 70: The Power to Knock Down Prison Walls
Submitted on January 18, 2012
By Dave Zirin - January 18, 2012
Muhammad Ali's brilliance was not that he was an antiwar prophet. He wasn't Malcolm X in boxing gloves, debating foreign policy between rounds, jabbing his hands and then saying, "So how about that Cuban missile crisis"...Ali understood that there was justice and injustice, right and wrong. He knew that not taking a stand could be as political a statement as taking one.
