“I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.” IfsThinkingHas BeensPoliticalGamesMarriedStatementsNaziBerlinOlympic Games Author:John Carlos
“If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?” IfsMenWantLooksStatesWholeUseGamesNationsTermUnitedUnited StatesChinaRussiaFlagsVersusOlympic GamesOlympian Author:John Carlos
“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.” IfsKnowsGivingBelievePersonsFactsGovernmentWantedSchoolJobsSongHouseSexTermSupportWifeReadyAmountSpeechBillsMy WifeSetbackSorority Author:John Carlos
“The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.” IfsFeelingsHomeLinesJusticeKnownMessagesBottomObligationBuriedBottom LineEquality And Justice Author:John Carlos
