"There's not an American in this country free……" — Jackie Robinson
"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
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Jackie Robinson
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29 Quotes by Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson has 29 quotes on this site.
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It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That…
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was…
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Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star……
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because…
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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More African American Quotes
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
— Louis Armstrong
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
— Pearl Bailey
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
— Ella Baker
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
— James A. Baldwin
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
— James A. Baldwin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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