"It took some time for us to realize that [people] didn't particularly say they didn't like us or have the love for us that they had in the past, nor the respect. I think they chose to leave based on the fact that they felt a reprisal for being associated or having a friendship with John Carlos or Tommie Smith, or Peter Norman, for that matter."

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John Carlos

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.”
“The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.”
“Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.”
“I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.”
“The present day composer refuses to die.”
“Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.”
“The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.”
“None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.”

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