Accuracy of quarrel quote According to Ralph Keyes the quote in the article I ain t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong No Viet Cong ever called me nigger is a misquotation Keyes says When Muhammad Ali refused induction into the Army he was widely quoted as saying No Viet Cong ever called me nigger This was a perfect marriage of anti war and anti racist sentiment Better yet it came straight from the mouth of a mega celebrity thought to possess primitive folk wisdom The only problem is that Ali never made this comment It s wasn t really his mind set to say something in that way explained Ali biographer Thomas Hauser The companion thought of that comment is people call me nigger in this country every day I never heard Ali say white people in this country call me nigger He would attack racism But he wouldn t personalize it Despite extensive searching by himself and others Hauser has never found the source of no Viet Cong ever called me nigger He concluded that it was just one of those things that got picked up and passed around in the 60s It was a comment we wanted Ali to make so badly that we made it for him