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\u201cRace is for me a more onerous burden than AIDS. My disease is the result of biological factors over which we, thus far, have no control. Racism, however, is entirely made by people, and therefore it hurts and inconveniences infinitely more.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Arthur Ashe<\/strong>, American tennis champion & activist<\/p>\n

Days of Grace<\/em>: A Memoir<\/em> (1993) with Arnold Rampersad, Thorndike, Maine: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994 large-print edition, p. 205<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e62a900-eb90″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> [Memoir. Ashe is referring to the public interpretation of comments he made during an interview for People <\/em>magazine in June 1992, and the fact that he had acquired the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the illness related to it, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).]:<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I stand by my remark. Race is for me a more onerous burden than AIDS. My disease is the result of biological factors over which we, thus far, have no control. Racism, however, is entirely made by people, and therefore it hurts and inconveniences infinitely more.<\/span>\u201d (p. 205)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Ashe died from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1993 after contracting the virus that causes the disease during heart bypass surgery in the early 1980s.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4ca900-eb90″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Days of Grace: A Memoir <\/em>(1993|1994 G.K. Hall ed.) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-8161-5883-5<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbca900-eb90″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Arthur Ashe – Misattributed<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance<\/span><\/strong>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Ward Beecher<\/strong><\/span>, American author<\/p>\n

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit<\/em> (1887) ed. William Drysdale, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887, p. 20; online via Princeton University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquote” tab_id=”1449531592148-05fdd3db-5676094f-cf63a900-eb90″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution note<\/em><\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Some contemporary sources have incorrectly cited American tennis player & philanthropist Arthur Ashe<\/strong><\/span> as being the source of the “clothes and manners do not make the man” quote. It\u2019s possible that Ashe quoted Beecher at some point, but the quote was in print before Ashe was born.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63a900-eb90″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[None. Verse appears as a single proverb in Beecher\u2019s collection.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cClothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.<\/span>\u201d (p. 20)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: According to editor William Drysdale’s introduction, Henry Beecher\u2019s Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit<\/em> were selected from his “sermons, speeches, and writings,” after which Beecher revised about one-third of the work before his death, “making many alterations, additions, and erasures….The remaining proverbs stand in the words in which Mr. Beecher originally clothed them.” (Introduction, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, <\/em>1887)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63a900-eb90″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit<\/em> (1887) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=i447AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20&dq=Henry+Ward+Beecher+%2B+Clothes+and+manners+do+not+make+the+man,+but+when+he+is+made+they+greatly+improve+his+appearance<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Arthur Ashe<\/strong><\/span> | Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n