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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?

Jackie Robinson

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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Choice Citizenship Class Fame Hall Myself People Sports
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 don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Myself Thinking
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fight Search Yourself
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Count Game Play Yourself
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Need
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Acceptance Care Myself Respect
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Dignity Himself Luxury Personal Possession Treasure
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
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Hate Lose One Liner
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Citizenship Class Important Issue Ourselves Right Time
I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Black Man Myself White World
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Dedication Game Myself Reciprocal Way
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Audience Life Opinion Sports Wasted Time Yourself
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
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Country Freedom Oneself

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