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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.
In all my years of baseball,
I have always expected to be traded.
I never liked the idea.
In my opinion,
baseball is as big a business as anything there is.
It has to be a business,
the way it is conducted.
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.
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.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless
if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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.
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,
I can only marvel at the many black players
who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because
they had nowhere else to go.
The right of every American to first
class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty,
but I never cared about acceptance as much as
I cared about respect.
This ain't fun.
But you watch me,
I'll get it done.
Baseball is like a poker game.
Nobody wants to quit when he's losing;
nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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.
Above anything else,
I hate to lose.
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
The most luxurious possession,
the richest treasure anybody has,
is his personal dignity.
Life is not a spectator sport.
If you're going to spend
your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on,
in my opinion you're wasting your life.
There's not an American in this country
free until every one of us is free.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me...
All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.