The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
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Jesse Owens
Born in Alabama in 1913, Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, silently defying Hitler's racial supremacy ideology through athletic excellence. As an African American in an era of pervasive racial discrimination, he proved human equality through the act of running - an indomitable sprinter whose legacy opened the path for all athlete-activists who followed.
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