The late Muhammad Ali, world boxing legend, gave this answer in an interview, when he was under pressure to go and fight in Vietnam, or else be imprisoned, which actually happened.
“I'm not going to duck. I'm not burning any flags. I'm not going to run to Canada. I'm staying right here.
You want to send me to jail? Fine, go ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I'm not going to go 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I'll die right here, right now, fighting you, if I want to die. You're my enemy, not any Chinese, not any Vietcong, not any Japanese. You're my opponent when I want freedom. You're my opponent when I want justice. You're my opponent when I want equality.
You want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won't even defend me right here in America, neither my rights nor my religious beliefs. You won't even defend me here at home."
A man with blue jeans is on stage.
A pair of shoes and a loose shirt. A love song that he made was on the same ground with him.
Romeo and Juliet. The song sounds better from his mouth as he's getting older within years he left behind.
A National O Style Resonator guitar which is now almost a 100 years old is in his hands. Finger picking like it's a daily habit of him and he sounds way better than the first day.
Mark Knopfler performing a love song that he made in 1980. Think about a song that is 44 years old today. Still sounds hauntingly beautiful, right?
Everyone, please enjoy this masterpiece along with me, Romeo and Juliet by Mark Knopfler live at Gibson Amphitheatre, LA, on June the 28th, 2006.
Came across this video again and it genuinely breaks my heart.
It’s okay not to be okay and please practice kindness to others cause you don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors
73% of suicides are men and we need to talk more about it