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.
JACKIE ROBINSONIf 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.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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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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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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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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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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