Jackie Robinson Quotes

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

Jackie Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972

Topics

TreasureDignityPersonalMostHis

We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

FamilyMyselfWarListeningAnxiety

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.

Mayer Hawthorne

LoveMeSongToughStrongChoose

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Robert Louis Stevenson

SuicideYouNothingLeftEvenOnce

When I defend our right to hunt and fish on public lands, rivers and streams. Or work for better schools. And more good paying jobs that can support a family. Those aren't political issues to me. They're personal.

Steve Bullock

WorkFamilyGoodSupportMeBetter

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

Stanley Bing

JobManagementYouSafeShoulders

Music is one of those businesses in which, if you're talented and hustle hard enough, you can make it - specifically as an entrepreneur. If you look as far back as Berry Gordy, Russell Simmons, Andre Harrell, L.A. Reid, and Sean 'Diddy' Combs, there's a whole lineage of successful black entrepreneurs who have built their own companies from scratch.

Troy Carter

MusicBlackEnoughYouHustleLook

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

Robin DiAngelo

PowerRacismPeopleControlFace

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Mary Douglas

GoodGodCommunityReligionSweet

The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.

Mike D

YouKnowListenLineBottomFunk

I'm the kind of guy who likes to have a little friendly banter, even with someone I disagree with.

Mike Gallagher

SomeoneKindDisagreeLittleGuy

If I die and am worth $50 million as opposed to $3 billion, it is really not important.

Jorge M. Perez

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If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.

Dmitri Alperovitch

SomeoneDataMatterYourSecureHow

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