Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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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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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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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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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