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.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

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.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces