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1. black
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

Jackie Robinson

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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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  It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

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  I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!

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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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  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.

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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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  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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  This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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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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  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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  You’re going to be a great player, kid.

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