Dialogue
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[from trailer]
Reporter: Whatcha gonna do if one of these pitchers throws for your head?
Jackie Robinson: I'll duck.
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[from trailer]
Jackie Robinson: You want a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?
Branch Rickey: No. I want a player who's got the guts *not* to fight back.
Jackie Robinson: You give me a uniform, you give me a number on my back, I'll give you the guts.
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Ben Chapman: Hey, Stanky, what's it like bein' a nigger's nigger?
Eddie Stanky: I dunno, Chapman, what's it like bein' a redneck piece of shit?
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Reporter: Baseball was proof positive that democracy was real. A baseball box score after all, is a democratic thing. It doesn't say how big you are, or what religion you follow it does not know how you voted, or the color of your skin, it simply states what kind of ballplayer you were on any particular day.
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Branch Rickey:
[referring to Jackie Robinson] He's a Methodist, I'm a Methodist... And God's a Methodist; We can't go wrong.
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Jackie Robinson: Why'd you do this Mr. Rickey?
Branch Rickey: We had a victory over fascism in Germany. It's time we had a victory over racism here.
Jackie Robinson: No. Why? Why'd YOU do it? Come on.
Branch Rickey: I love this game. I love baseball. Given my whole life to it. 40 odd years ago I was a player coach at Ohio-Wesleyan University. We had a Negro catcher. Best hitter on the team. Charlie Thomas. Fine young man. I saw him laid low, broken because of the color of his skin and I didn't do enough to help. Told myself I did but I didn't. There was something unfair at the heart of the game I loved and I ignored it. But a time came when I could no longer do that. You...you let me love baseball again.
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