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Arthur Ashe

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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Arthur Ashe is saying that although school teaches us that everyone should be treated the same, real life often shows that this is not true. He points out the difference between the ideal of fairness taught in class and the unfairness people actually experience.

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