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" Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. "
Jackie Robinson
Acceptance
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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 most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. "
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" 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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" There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free. "
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" 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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" 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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" Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me. "
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" It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated. "
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" My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions. "
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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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" I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. "
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" 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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" I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. "
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" This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done. "
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" 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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