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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

Jackie Robinson

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself
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
It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Easy Field Race Relationship
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Business Dedication Display Institution Public Sacred Sports Thinking
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Diversion Himself Stock Trade
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Count Game Play Yourself
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSON

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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Beginning Emotion Experience Myself Patriotic Play Thinking World
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Dreams Fairy Tale Inspirational Listening Movie Myself Ordinary Time True Wife
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fight Search Yourself
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Need
I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Myself Thinking
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Kill Lose Myself Stand Temper Thinking Trouble Win
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Right
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Hate Lose One Liner
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Exception Impact Important Life

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