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The alternate domination of one faction over another,
sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,
which in different ages and countries has perpetrated
the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless
if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
I want everybody to understand that
I am an American Negro first before
I am a member of any political party.
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.
A typical vice of American politics is
the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
I stay out of politics because
if I begin thinking too much about politics,
I'll probably... drop writing children's books
and become a political cartoonist again.