You're going to be a great player, kid.

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

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

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.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.