C. He argued that the country’s leaders should focus on correcting injustices at home.
“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 while so-called
Negro people in Louisville
aré treated like dogs”
Ali correctly believed that black Americans were fighting for democratic rights in a foreign country while being denied those same rights here in the US. He saw military service as a hypocrisy and an injustice, which is why he refused his military induction.
The Anderson National Historic Site Located at Andersville, Georgia.
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
