"It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro."

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Source : "1968: Black athletes make silent protest". news.bbc.co.uk. September 1967.

Tommie Smith

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“I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.”
“Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.”
“You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.”
“If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.”
“It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.”

Source : Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.589, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“You ever feel like you know someone so much that they can breathe for you? Like when their chest and your chest rise and fall, they do it together because they have to? That's how it felt. That's how it always felt.”

Source : John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.”
“All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.”

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