Larry Doby Quotes

At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time.

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Unless we bring in blacks as full partners, my country won’t be fit for my grandchildren.

I hold that this government was established…for the benefit of white men and their prosperity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others.

To liberty and enfranchisement is as far as law can carry the Negro. The rest must be left to conscience and common sense.

Once again it is peaceful at Augusta National Golf Club, after some rather ugly stand-offs in recent years, when the club balked at changing its all-white, all-male membership tradition. African-Americans and female Americans are on the club manifest now along with other golf-Americans, and all is serene once again.

I don't support white supremacy. I'm the one who made them take 'white supremacy' off the roster that was the symbol of the Democratic Party in this state.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

When I started my pathway, black players were often considered to be good wingers, good players, but not captain or management material. It has changed since then, which is pleasing, but we still have so far to go.

Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity... but that doesn't mean... everybody is down with it.