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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.
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.
A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?
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.
There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
You're going to be a great player, kid.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
I know that I am a black man in a white world ... I know that I never had it made.
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
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.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Life is not a spectator sport.
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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.
I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.
I don't like needing anyone for anything.
I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.
