Tommie Smith Quotes

• I don't think it's necessary to go to any game to make a stand just because you are there. The stand is made from the heart, and you can do that in the grocery store.

  Tommie Smith

  Heart, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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 Smith

  Running, Country, Powerful

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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 Smith

  Team, Dirty, Athlete

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

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• I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.

  Tommie Smith

  Men, Trump, Educated

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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