Equality Quote by Arthur Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

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I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are…

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

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If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air…

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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without…

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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries…

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If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

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Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it…

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