Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.