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10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
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4/29/16- Philly, PA
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Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
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RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
I am dreading xenophobic idiots on the internet cheering just because of his "religion" even though he was more peaceful than those hatriots will ever be.
I am dreading xenophobic idiots on the internet cheering just because of his "religion" even though he was more peaceful than those hatriots will ever be.
RIP
gotta say...you're the only one who has brought up religion so far.
nothing like the 70's when we gathered around the tv & watched ali. uncle, grandmother, grandfather, dad, mom, friends of the family, everybody. this was spectacular & i knew it even though i was a child. ali is one tough son of a bitch. remember when ken norton broke ali's jaw early in the fight & the fight went all the way i believe, ten more rounds or something. was this the manila, philippines fight, i forget?
george foreman... these are real men. when you get hit by ali, norton or foreman, you know you been hit by a truck,. most of us would literally die probably
Interesting, I'm all weepy over this man dying, and my guy was so matter-of-fact - though not cold - as he tends to be about life and death. Just realistic, I guess.
"of course, it was coming".
I hope to temper my boohoo'ing side with a bit of that hard shell to counter it.
I am dreading xenophobic idiots on the internet cheering just because of his "religion" even though he was more peaceful than those hatriots will ever be.
RIP
gotta say...you're the only one who has brought up religion so far.
That doesn't change the fact that it will happen and it has. I've seen ignorant hatriots on Facebook already saying "rest in hell" just by the search function.
ALI......not only the greatest in the ring but also great in the political and humanitarian ring as well. Amazing how he went from being a VERY polarizing figure to more of an elder statesman. Time changes perspectives. Here he speaks and says one day we will have a black president.....
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Soldier Field, Chicago, IL 7-11-1995; United Center, Chicago, IL 6-29-1998; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV 10-22-2000 ~PJ10~; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 4-1-2003; Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ 6-7-2003; United Center, Chicago, IL 6-18-2003; Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI 6-21-2003; Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 10-5-2004; The Gorge, George, WA 9-1-2005; United Center, Chicago, IL 5-16-2006; United Center, Chicago, IL 5-17-2006; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 7-2-2006; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 7-3-2006; United Center, Chicago, IL 8-23-2009; United Center, Chicago, IL 8-24-2009; Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC 12-4-2013; Key Arena, Seattle, WA 12-6-2013; iWireless Arena, Moline, IL 10-17-2014 ~No Code Show~; Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN 10-19-2014; Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI 10-20-2014 ~Yield Show~; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 10-22-2014 ~PJ24~: Wrigley Field 1 & 2, 2016; Safeco Field, Seattle Home Shows 1 & 2; Wrigley Field, Chicago Away Shows 1 & 2....
I am dreading xenophobic idiots on the internet cheering just because of his "religion" even though he was more peaceful than those hatriots will ever be.
RIP
gotta say...you're the only one who has brought up religion so far.
That doesn't change the fact that it will happen and it has. I've seen ignorant hatriots on Facebook already saying "rest in hell" just by the search function.
Just saying.
I doubt those people know that he changed religion to avoid the draft.
I am dreading xenophobic idiots on the internet cheering just because of his "religion" even though he was more peaceful than those hatriots will ever be.
RIP
gotta say...you're the only one who has brought up religion so far.
That doesn't change the fact that it will happen and it has. I've seen ignorant hatriots on Facebook already saying "rest in hell" just by the search function.
Just saying.
I doubt those people know that he changed religion to avoid the draft.
WHAT! Where did you get such garbage.....please show me where something like that statement is a fact. I'll help ya, here's a few things about Ali many people did not know....
My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father… Shoot them for what? How am I going to shoot them? Poor little black people, little babies, and children, women. How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.
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 in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
Peace
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*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
He was the greatest. RIP.
RIP
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Fly on
my sweet angelyou butterfly."Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"of course, it was coming".
I hope to temper my boohoo'ing side with a bit of that hard shell to counter it.
"The greatest of alllllllll time"
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2018: 9/2 Fenway 1
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Just saying.
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I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Amazing how he went from being a VERY polarizing figure to more of an elder statesman. Time changes perspectives.
Here he speaks and says one day we will have a black president.....
RIPeace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
we will find a way, we will find our place
http://heavy.com/sports/2016/06/muhammad-ali-vietnam-war-draft-changed-name-dead-religion-cassius-clay/
My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father… Shoot them for what? How am I going to shoot them? Poor little black people, little babies, and children, women. How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.
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 in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)