10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

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 want everybody to understand that

I am an American Negro first before

I am a member of any political party.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me...

All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

All right,

then,

I'll go to hell.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

George Washington, as a boy,

was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.

He could not even lie.

When red haired people are

above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow;

there is no humor in Heaven.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.

Another man's, I mean.

The main difference between a cat and a lie

is that a cat only has nine lives.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered

either by themselves or by others.

I have never taken any exercise,

except sleeping and resting,

and I never intend to take any.

I never smoke to excess that is,

I smoke in moderation,

only one cigar at a time.