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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.
— Jackie Robinson
Tags: realize, some, more, men

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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
— Jackie Robinson
Tags: want, understand, political, i-am
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
— Jackie Robinson
Tags: being, your, respect, you, me
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.
— Jackie Robinson
Tags: opinion, your, you, life
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.
— Jackie Robinson
Tags: black, i-am, world, man
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.
— Jackie Robinson
Tags: lose, winning, i-am, me
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