The Trials of Muhammad Ali Bande-annonce (EN)

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Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 >> On the right hand, the best touch of the fight so far.
00:13 [MUSIC]
00:16 >> [SOUND] Come on, sucker.
00:19 >> The enemy wanted him to come out all blasted.
00:23 >> [LAUGH] >> But I lied myself, they know though.
00:26 >> [LAUGH] >> I'm not the real God.
00:30 >> Wait a minute, wait a minute, Cassius.
00:31 >> You must listen to me.
00:33 >> Ali was exemplifying a freedom that most black people did not enjoy.
00:41 [MUSIC]
00:44 >> We could not foresee the difficulties that would lie ahead as far as
00:49 military service and of course the Muslim affiliation.
00:53 >> You won't fight for your country.
00:55 You refuse to go into the- >> I'm a minister of my religion.
00:58 This country has laws of ministers.
01:00 [MUSIC]
01:02 >> Mr. Muhammad Ali has just refused to be inducted into the United States Armed Forces.
01:08 >> It took an all white jury less than a half hour to find Muhammad Ali
01:12 guilty of all charges and specifications.
01:15 >> I find nothing interesting or tolerable about this man.
01:18 He's a disgrace to his country, his race, and what he laughingly describes as his profession.
01:24 >> I'm not allowed to work here now in America.
01:27 I'm not allowed to leave America.
01:29 >> The exile years were the worst years of me and Ali's life.
01:35 >> I'm not going to help nobody get something my Negroes don't have.
01:38 If I'm going to die, I'll die right here fighting you.
01:40 >> I have two alternatives.
01:43 Either go to jail or go to the Army.
01:46 But I would like to say that there is another alternative.
01:50 And that alternative is justice.
01:54 [MUSIC]