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“On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.”

Has Beens Ends Able Sports Fields Racism Giants Bus

Author:Hank Aaron

“Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.”

Sports Views Violence Worst Football Drug Racism Aspect Greed Illness Stupidity Mental Illness Soccer Analysis Our Society Exploitation Associates Drunkenness Racket Starters

Author:Simon Heffer

“Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.”

Should Sports Racism Fairs Supposed To Be

Author:Ice Cube

“The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.”

Hate Sports Community Powerful Economic Racism I Hate Nationalism Sexism Exploitation Olympics Worthless Stadiums Homophobia Displacement

Author:Terre Thaemlitz

“I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.”

Thinking Ends Sports Football College Pure Basketball Racism Fairs Coaches African American The End Of The Day Representation Old Fashioned Scratches College Football College Basketball

Author:Frank Deford

“Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.”

People Humans Feelings Political Sports Groups Benefits Racism Treats Native Native American Political Correctness Correctness Hurtful Bruised Mascots Short People

Author:Dave Zirin

“We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.”

Ifs World Opportunity Games Given Sports Fields Possibility Taught Equal Racism Endless Discrimination Hopefully Bridges Gaps Sexism Taught Us Olympic Games Playing Fields

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots.”

Humans Stills Shows America Sports Human Beings Team Racism Pope Bulls Sports Team Institutional Racism Mascots

Author:Russell Means

“The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”

Life Is Sports Learning Racism Historical Equality Civics

Author:Arthur Ashe

“The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.”

People Thinking Want Sports Difficult Racism Overcoming Hardest Racist Hardest Thing

Author:Herschel Walker