3 Quotes by Ed Henry

It is the ministers, the church people of America, who can, almost overnight, cure the ills of our system which make so many of us commit the sin of acknowledging the Fatherhood of God on Sunday and rejecting the brotherhood of man on Monday.”11.

I believe that racial extractions and color hues and forms of worship become secondary to what a man can do,” said Rickey. “The American public is not as concerned with a first baseman’s pigmentation as it is with the power of his swing, the dexterity of his slide, the gracefulness of his fielding or the speed of his legs.” Rickey was far from finished.

At the beginning, in 1947, Rickey had warned him, “They may throw at you.” “It isn’t new to me,” replied Robinson. Yet here he was, near the end of his career, and pitchers were still throwing balls at him. He was hit sixty-six times over the course of his career.