Ruben Carter had quite the life, as seen in the movie staring Denzel Washington. However I did get a chance to see him speak live at the Jubilee auditorium in 2000, and to this day I consider it the best live speech I have ever seen.
To me Ruben Carter is one of the strongest, smartest, and quickest humans I have even seen. A truly great man who took a major negative and turned it to a positive, by advocating for the wrongly convicted.
If you get a chance to read "The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472" which he wrote in prison, I strongly suggest it.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/rubin-h...t-76-1.2616026
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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the former professional boxer who became an advocate for the wrongly convicted after spending 19 years in prison for a triple murder he didn't commit, died Sunday in Toronto. He was 76.
Carter's struggle for freedom and exoneration was made famous in a number of books, a Bob Dylan song and a Hollywood film. Although born in the U.S., Carter had a special connection to Canada, where he settled following his prison release, which came about with the help of a group of Canadians.
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