Muhammad Ali was unanimously declared a conscientious objector by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971 after he spoke against the Vietnam War. Ali refused to take up the weapon to go and fight against the people who had done him ‘no harm’, and for this in 1967, he was stripped of his Heavyweight boxing championship and also got banned from boxing for three years. This let Ali fight for justice for the next four years. And as he said in a statement to a crowd of college antiwar protesters, “I have two alternatives, either go to jail or go to the army. But I would like to say that there is another alternative. And that alternative, that alternative is justice.”

Ali was quite adamant about what he believed in, and he knew how to fight for it. Also, there were many people who resonated with the logic behind his opposition. Recently, his daughter Rasheda Ali appeared on a UP-CLOSE show hosted by a Youtube channel, Youcef Hollywood. She also threw some light on how many people used to hate him but started loving him after listening to his stance on the Vietnam War.

Muhammad Ali’s daughter on her father’s take on the Vietnam War

In her interview, Rasheda Ali talked about how people who knew him as a boxer, started seeing him in a different light altogether after he went against the Vietnam War. Ali was always standing against social injustice, he stood up for the poor people, victims of racism, and “those who were treated unfairly“.

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Rasheda then revealed how her father converted his haters to his fans. She said, “When he went against the war, a lot of people respected the fact that he wanted to keep us safe and why are we going miles and miles away from our country to fight other poor people when we have issues in our own country.”

And then she talked about how her father believed that all of these were just deceptions of the government, and she admitted that her father opened a lot of eyes during this period. There’s no doubt that Muhammad Ali was full of kindness and always stood for what he believed in. These were one of the things that he was widely famous for. And Rasheda believes that this is the sole reason behind her father’s success.

Rasheda Ali believes her father wasn’t successful because of boxing

Muhammad Ali always tried to help others as much as he can, and he used boxing as a platform to reach out to as many people as possible. And this is what Rasheda believes made him successful, as people loved him not because he was a great boxer, but more because he was a kind personality.

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She also declared that when people think about Muhammad Ali, she said, “Most of them will agree that he was a humanitarian and he served others his whole entire life and I think that’s what made him successful.”

She reveals that she’s been instilled with such great values by her father, and she will continue to transfer these values further to her children as well. What are your thoughts about Ali’s nature? Tell us in the comments section below.

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