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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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. – Arthur Ashe

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Friendship
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. – Arthur Ashe

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Happiness
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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou

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Black History

There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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Black History

Random Quotes

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. – Menander

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Wisdom

I think whats fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe havent played before. – Carly Fiorina

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Politics

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor. – Jonathan Shapiro

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Humor

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

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Winter