There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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