Quotes by Jackie Robinson - Page 2

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Division
Doctrine
Gop
Mankind
Prejudice
Seeking
Supremacy
Taken
White
American
Breed
Old
Sell
Republicans
Over
Racial
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Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Class
Order
Strong
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Accomplished
Colonel
Technically
How Much
Obviously
Replied
Worked
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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.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Independence
Candidates
Careful
Independent
Issues
Party
Vote
Politics Myself Always
Since
Actual
Call
Guess
Identified
Label
One Party
Taking
Themselves
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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.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Awake
Disaster
Party
Republican Party
San Francisco
Wide
Wide Awake
Life Me My Life
Greatest
Barry
Convention
Nominee
Few
Francisco
National
Produced
San
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Army
Clear
Missouri
University
Gave
Go Home
Instead
Practiced
Telling
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Dodgers
Taken
Greatest
Considered
Branch
Mr
Closely
Club
Front
Human Being
Identified
Mention
No Future
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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.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Happens
Heritage
Proud
Speak
Worthy
Ask
American
Basis
Compete
Eliminate
Per
Permitted
Shall
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Girl
Baseball
Foul
Sitting
Talk
Ball
Ball Game
Game
Certainly
Difference
Field
Little Girl
Strike
Third
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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.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Baseball
Brooklyn
Courageous
Dodgers
Hands
Tough
Trapped
Unhappy
Branch
Earn
Enough Money
Marry
Solution
Shrewd
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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.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Accomplished
Conditions
Protest
Resigned
Results
Seats
Sections
Unjust
Allocated
Blacks
Bore
Exchange
Hoped
Least
Post
Realize
Separate
Speaking
Whites
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I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Intelligence
Success
Believe
Past
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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.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Equality
Baseball
Earth
Heaven
Judgment
Millions
Today
Willing
Life Today Believe
Stand
Club
Counted
Wait
Longer
Minor
Minor League
Stand Up
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