John Carlos Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 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

• 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 black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color here in the United States, the greatest country in the world, that was running around in poverty every day, so we wanted to illustrate the fact that these individuals did not have shoes and they had to walk 20 miles to and from school every day with no shoes in the greatest country in the world.

  John Carlos

  Running, Country, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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