If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.