The 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.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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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 don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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