Indexed in the public record
“Why not? Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man. In my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d72d19b2eabb44045bcabc84fdf1cfe0729fee4a8bf74d1061d55d819fd16ed5
reference only
Related in the record
“Anytime I feel something is wrong I'm gonna say something. Baseball has changed in many ways since I…”
Roberto Clemente
Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
“When I came here, you seldom saw a black player get together with a white player and go…”
Roberto Clemente
Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
“The first thing the average white Latin American player does when he comes to the States is associate…”
Roberto Clemente
Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
“No, no. Bill should play two or three more years. Talk to him. Tell him he can get…”
Roberto Clemente
Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
“I've had two lives: the first one when I was born in Puerto Rico in 1935 [sic] and…”
Roberto Clemente
Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
“Circumstances alter cases.”
Thomas C. Haliburton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.