Latest John Carlos Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

  John Carlos

  Fighting, Men, Justice

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It's many things that she had to deal with, and she got to the point where [my wife] didn't know what to believe anymore and she just didn't care to live her life anymore. I think it was devastating at that particular time, and it's even more devastating today as we grow older.

  John Carlos

  Believe, Thinking, Wife

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but it made me stronger. I haven't lost my mind, I haven't become a dope fiend, I'm not a drug pusher, I'm not a stick-up man.

  John Carlos

  Dope, Men, Drug

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

  John Carlos

  Teacher, Father, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my wife didn't know what to believe anymore, and the fact that I didn't have a job, I couldn't support my bills, the fact that I was getting ready to go through maybe a mental setback in terms of depression, we just had a tremendous amount of things on us.

  John Carlos

  Song, Jobs, Sex

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life.

  John Carlos

  Return, Rosie, Springboards

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm not too proud to do any job to support my family.

  John Carlos

  Jobs, Support, Proud

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.

  John Carlos

  Jobs, Men, Cedars

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Peter [Norman] never vacated from himself as to who he was.

  John Carlos

  Peter

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

  John Carlos

  Growing Up, Thinking, Peter

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think Peter Norman recuperated in the sense that people who knew who Peter Norman was, he built his character around the legacy of his family, in terms of what they taught him about equality and justice for all.

  John Carlos

  Character, Thinking, Justice For All

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think it's something that we said collectively, in terms of the fact that we was getting ready to face probably the biggest storms of our life, and we had to stand strong for what we believe in and carry on the legacy we just laid down for society.

  John Carlos

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Peter [Norman] never denounced us, he never turned his back on us, he never walked away from us, he never said one thing against what he stood for in Mexico City, and that was freedom, justice and equality for all God's people.

  John Carlos

  Cities, People, Justice

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.

  John Carlos

  Missing, World, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

• He took a stance as a man, and the greatest thing about Peter Norman is when you sit back and think about Tommie Smith and John Carlos here in America, they could go beat up on Tommie Smith and get tired of beating up on him and go to the other side of town and find John Carlos and beat up on him, but when Peter Norman left and went to Australia, there was no switch-off on Peter.

  John Carlos

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Yet and still, Peter Norman took into account that the aboriginals were suffering just as much in Australia as Blacks in the United States were suffering.

  John Carlos

  Australia, Suffering, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

  John Carlos

  Men, Australia, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• [Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in humanity. At all costs, he believed in humanity.

  John Carlos

  Mom, Dad, Army

  Source: www.pbs.org

• [Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

  John Carlos

  Strong, Character, Pride

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Peter Norman's a man's man.

  John Carlos

  Men, Peter

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

  John Carlos

  Humanitarian, Peter, Deceased

  Source: www.pbs.org

• [Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger on the right move.

  John Carlos

  Sports, Wise, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem [Abdul Jabbar ], these individuals supported us, but yet still, when you sit back and say the coverage that was done relative to their support was very shallow.

  John Carlos

  Support, Done, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It was like when we went to Mexico City [Olympics in 1968] it was sun and shining and bright. When we came home it was chaotic and storms everywhere. I think the most devastating thing was to make the adjustment as to why so many individuals that you grew up with in the sport thought it necessary to turn their backs and walk away from you.

  John Carlos

  Sports, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  John Carlos

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org