So many things...his refusal to be drafted in opposition to the war in Vietnam, which resulted in the denial of his boxing license and the loss of years of his career when he was in his athletic prime...the fact that he spoke out fearlessly against the establishment on behalf of African Americans...he was a man who demonstrated the courage of his convictions, time and time again.
I guess I had an awareness of that as sort of a background thing. But I never really zeroed in on him as the inspiration and agent of change that he obviously was.
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