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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?

Jackie Robinson

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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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Along Forget Help Journey Remember Way
I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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Believe Myself Thinking
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Country Freedom Oneself
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.
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Business Dedication Display Institution Public Sacred Sports Thinking
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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Audience Life Opinion Sports Wasted Time Yourself
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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Dedication Game Myself Reciprocal Way
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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Ahead Game Lose Quit Yourself
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Count Game Play Yourself
I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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Black Man Myself White World
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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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Audience Inspirational Life One Liner Sports
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Hate Lose One Liner
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Dignity Himself Luxury Personal Possession Treasure
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fight Search Yourself
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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Diversion Himself Stock Trade
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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Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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Fun Hard Work Hustle Myself
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Acceptance Care Myself Respect
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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Beginning Emotion Experience Myself Patriotic Play Thinking World
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Citizenship Class Important Issue Ourselves Right Time
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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Myself Need
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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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Children Greatness Inspirational Player Potential Yourself
It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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Myself Right

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