The search for the "white hope" not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another.


As quoted in Introduction to "Knockout" at Unforgivable Blackness at PBS (2005)

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Jack Johnson Quotes

The search for the white hope not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was ...

The search for the white hope not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was ...

The search for the white hope not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was ...

The search for the white hope not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was ...