I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?

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 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 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.

Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.