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Jackie Robinson

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Respect

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Jackie Robinson is saying that whether people have positive or negative feelings toward him personally does not matter to him. What he wants is for others to acknowledge his dignity and treat him fairly simply because he is a person.

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