Tommie Smith quotes
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“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.”
-- Tommie SmithSource : "1968: Black athletes make silent protest". news.bbc.co.uk. September 1967.
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“America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.”
-- Tommie SmithSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.”
-- Tommie SmithSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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