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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Jackie Robinson

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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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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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 never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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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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