The man gave up a significant portion of his career for his beliefs. By doing so he won a lot of people over, including me.
His beliefs were hypocritical to the max. He said he could not fight for his country but he did fight for money and he supported the most violent religion in history. Cassius is just another Mohammedan zip wad.
The other day I was thinking how ironic it is that, after all these years, Ali ranks as one of the great conservative heroes. He stood up to, and helped end the most monstrous big government program imaginable. At no small cost to himself.