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"So many people are just interested in achieving the most in their sport, making the most money they can. [Arthur Ashe] believed there was more to his life on earth than hitting a tennis ball. He took his stature in tennis and parleyed it into a way to impact millions and millions of people."
-US Tennis Professional Malavai Washington, in A Gift From God, Sports Central
Thesis StatementA great tennis champion - that is the first thing that comes to mind when we think of Arthur Ashe. What defines his legacy, however, is the way he lived his life and fought against social injustice. His determined yet civil approach to social equality made him a very influential leader in his own right.
"[Arthur Ashe] was an ambassador of what was right. He was an ambassador of dignity. He was an ambassador of class." |
"From what we get we can make a living. What we give, however, makes a life." |
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"Arthur Ashe was much larger than an accomplished tennis champion. An incomparable ambassador without portfolio for the sport, an impeccable sportsman, a towering statesman..." |
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