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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. "
Jackie Robinson
Watching
Life
Going
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" If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball. "
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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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" A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy. "
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" When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home. "
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Know
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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 colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with. "
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People
" Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment. "
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Go
Walking
Opportunities
" When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go. "
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Look
" I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party. "
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Want
Political
" Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. "
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Diversion
Sense
Second
" How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts. "
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How
Counts
" The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. "
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Treasure
Dignity
His
" It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated. "
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Make
Baseball
Political
" I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens. "
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Think
Doubt
Patient
" In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted. "
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Business
Opinion
Way
" During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater. "
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Life
Me
" I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us. "
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Proud
Speak
You
" I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare. "
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Believe
Live
Hungry
" I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made. "
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Flag
World
Man
" The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime. "
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Politicians
Black
Baseball
" After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. "
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Two
" The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me. "
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Teammates
Special
Old
" This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done. "
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Watch
You
Done
" Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven. "
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Equality
Life
Today
" Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. "
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Acceptance
Honesty
People
" I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it. "
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Grateful
Take
Good
" The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. "
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Time
Important
Citizenship
" My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own. "
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Time
Thought
People
" I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known. "
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You
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