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"It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro."
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Source: 1968: Black athletes make silent protest. news.bbc.co.uk. September 1967.
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