"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Topic(s):
Equality
More From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- "I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."
- "A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group."
- "Today’s youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn’t take that attitude forward with them."
More In Equality
- "No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."― George Orwell
- "You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."― Arthur Ashe
- "Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots."― Crystal Eastman