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Only Quotes by Jesse Owens
- One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because…
- I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to…
- Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.
- The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black…
- It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of…
- I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black…
- The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
- The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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