Jackie Robinson Quotes

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Jackie Robinson
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Jackie Robinson
I cannot stand and sing the national anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world.... I know that I never had it made.

Jackie Robinson
Response to a call for patience:
On hearing you say this, I felt like standing up and saying, "Oh no! Not again." I respectfully remind you, sir, that we have been the most patient of all people. When you said we must have self-respect, I wondered how we could have self-respect and remain patient, considering the treatment accorded us through the years.

Jackie Robinson
I am convinced that those of us who are earnestly concerned about the problems of civil rights and integration must measure progress not in terms of how much progress we have made recently but how far we have yet to go before we achieve full first class citizenship for the Negro.

Jackie Robinson
On hearing racial epithets on the field during first year of integrating baseball:
I'd get mad. But I'd never let them know it.

Jackie Robinson
Talk is important, especially from the White House. But it isn't enough.

Jackie Robinson
I can't speak for any fifteen million people any more than any other person can, but I know that I've got too much invested for my wife and child and myself in the future of this country, and I and other Americans of many races and faiths have too much invested in our country's welfare for any of us to throw it away because of a siren song sung in bass.

Jackie Robinson