“Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.” PeopleThinkingWorldAmericaNationsSportsSeeingColorBecomingInvolvedTreatedInequalityAround The WorldGreat NationsBecoming Involved Author:John Carlos
“Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever [in 1968], had been televised worldwide. The second thing is the fact that it was in Technicolor. Never had the games been shown in color before.We wanted it to be understood that we were representing America, but we were representing Black America in particular, so that's why we put the black glove on.” FirstsFactsWantedAmericaGamesFeltBlackParticularColorUnderstoodFirst TimeRepresentingGlovesOlympic GamesBlack America Author:John Carlos
“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.” ThinkingMenAmericaLeftSidesBeatsTownsTiredAustraliaPeterStance Author:John Carlos
