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Now people are more aware of what's going on in the world and what we need to do to change a lot of things in this world. We can make more history by writing about it and talking about it and encouraging people to stand up about human rights.

— Wyomia Tyus

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I still remember it as it was then, and it is something that will always be very close to my heart.

We all went, but nobody knew what they wanted to do. And it was left up to you what you wanted to do.

And you have three women - black women - that have won back-to-back 100m. You've got myself, you have got Gail Devers and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and nobody ever speaks of it.

Just as fast as I could run, I should be able to speak out just as fast.

They couldn't care less about what women did - especially black women - what they really did in the Olympic Games. You would think somebody winning back-to-back 100m that would be a big thing.

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