It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
JACKIE ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSONI know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe 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 ROBINSONThis ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
JACKIE ROBINSONPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSONBaseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONThere’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSON