Berlin Quote by John Carlos
“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.”
“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.”
![“One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.” quote by Herbert Hainer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f5d/herbert-hainer-50991_be-careful_one-of-the-purposes-of-the-olympic-games_2882535.jpg)
![“[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…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13b/john-carlos-16923_bills_sport-officials-blocked-their-support-of_4987.jpg)
![“The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color here in the United States, the greatest country in the world, that was running around in poverty every day, so we wanted to illustrate the fact that these individuals did not have shoes…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d36/john-carlos-16923_black_the-black-socks-on-me-at-olympics-in-196_221018.jpg)
![“It took some time for us to realize that [people] didn't particularly say they didn't like us or have the love for us that they had in the past, nor the respect. I think they chose to leave based on the fact that they felt a reprisal for being associated or having a friendship with John Carlos or…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd1/john-carlos-16923_facts_it-took-some-time-for-us-to-realize-that_593802.jpg)
