"I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. The..." — Jackie Robinson

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.