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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

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At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
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The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.
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I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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