“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.” StillsDoneIndividualSupportBillsRelativeShallowMuhammadCoverage Author:John Carlos
“[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.” EnoughMovingIndividualSportsSupportWiseBillsFingersOfficialsMuhammadBlocked 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
