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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

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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.

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Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

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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.

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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.

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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

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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.

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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: January 31st, 1919

Died: October 24th, 1972

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