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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.
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.
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.
The black press, some liberal sportswriters,
and even a few politicians were banging away
at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.
I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
I cannot possibly believe that
I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry,
inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed,
denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home.
I thought my family was secure,
so I went running around everyplace else.
I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids
than I did my own.
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.
Pop flies, in a sense,
are just a diversion for a second baseman.
Grounders are his stock trade.
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.
I want everybody to understand that
I am an American Negro first before
I am a member of any political party.
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley.
He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand,
good can come out of it.
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.
The old Dodgers were something special,
but of my teammates overall,
there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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.
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.
Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves
by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam
the door on potential opportunities.
We go through life walking a tightrope
to prevent too much disillusionment.
I think if we go back and check our record,
the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than
patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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.
It kills me to lose.
If I'm a troublemaker,
and I don't think that my temper makes me one,
then it's because I can't stand losing.
That's the way I am about winning,
all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
If I had been white with the things I did,
they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.