The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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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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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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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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