Quote by Arthur Ashe
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. - Arthur Ashe

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

Other quotes 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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Equality
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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. – Thurgood Marshall

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Black History

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. – Franklin Thomas

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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. – Desmond Tutu

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Black History

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. – Abraham Lincoln

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