Jesse Owens Quote

Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.


About Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics (2007), by Jeremy Schaap, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 211


Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.