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Baseball regards us as sheep.
I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.
A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.
I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
