Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONLife is not a spectator sport.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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 right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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