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It's not so bad for politicians and Pulitzer Prize poets and certain intellectuals in this country to sign petitions and speak out against the war in Vietnam, but when Cassius Clay did it he paid a heavy price for Freedom of Speech.

Source: c. 1966; on Muhammad Ali's being stripped on his title.
-- Floyd Patterson, (Jan 4 1935-2006), US boxer; He won the heavyweight title by defeating Archie Moore, 1956; first to gain the title a second time in a rematch with Ingemar Johansson.

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