By Jackie Robinson
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."
"I 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."
"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
"Jackie, we've got no army. There's virtually nobody on our side. No owner, no umpires, very few newspapermen. And I'm afraid that many fans may be hostile. We'll be in a tough position. We can win only if we can convince the world that I am doing this because you're a great ballplayer, and a fine gentleman."
-- Branch Rickey
I told my father, "When I grow up I'm going to be a pilot." You know what he said? He said, "Ain't no colored pilots." So I told him I'd be a ballplayer. And he said, "Ain't no colored ballplayers." --Henry “Hank” Aaron
"[Segregation] gives the segregator a false sense of superiority, it gives the segregated a false sense of inferiority." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 1958
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."
"I 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."
"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
"Jackie, we've got no army. There's virtually nobody on our side. No owner, no umpires, very few newspapermen. And I'm afraid that many fans may be hostile. We'll be in a tough position. We can win only if we can convince the world that I am doing this because you're a great ballplayer, and a fine gentleman."
-- Branch Rickey
I told my father, "When I grow up I'm going to be a pilot." You know what he said? He said, "Ain't no colored pilots." So I told him I'd be a ballplayer. And he said, "Ain't no colored ballplayers." --Henry “Hank” Aaron
"[Segregation] gives the segregator a false sense of superiority, it gives the segregated a false sense of inferiority." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 1958