Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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 most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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