If you keep on depending on the goodness of the man's heart, second base from the Dodgers is as far as you'll ever get.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Greatest (1977) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:34:21.068 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Well, look, what time, 8 o'clock?

- 8 o'clock it is.

- And be pretty.

- I will.

- 'Cause I will be pretty.

- You are fine.

- All right.

- All right. See you later.

- Be on time, then. Don't be too slow. Women is always late. Especially you colored girls.

- What Jackie Robinson was really saying was, if you give me a place on your team, I'll show you what a nice fellow I am.

- Just a regular human being like everybody else, only my skin is kind of funny, but before long, you won't even notice that.

- That's what happened, because we have more black players now than ever.

- If you keep on depending on the goodness of the man's heart, second base from the Dodgers is as far as you'll ever get.

- Because no majority ever gave the minority a fair share of the loot without force.

- Well, force is something we can't really do because we're not united. Once we unite, we will have that force.

- And for every one of them in the world, there's two non-whites going on three. You don't forget that.

- That sounds a little different, the white minority.

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