"Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

John Carlos

#Sports Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Color Quotes

“Only one book is worth reading: the heart.”
“Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.133, Macmillan
“I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.”

Source : Quoted as Lyn Marcus (Lyndon LaRouche's pseudonym) in the Washington Post, February 17, 1974.
“A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.”
“Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.”

Source : Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.436, Yale University Press
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

Source : "Fables (Book VIII)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.
“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.”

Source : "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.
“Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish that maybe we'll play together, because that's how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there's a lot more.”

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