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Not on your life. We started this together, boy, and we'll finish it together.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Jackie Robinson Story movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:39:59.516 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Locked! Somebody get a key. Can't we get in?

- Mr. Rickey! Look at this.

- Back in the bus, boys. Back in the bus.

- Come on, Jackie. We don't want trouble.

- I'm the cause of the trouble, Mr. Rickey. Maybe you'd like to call it off. Maybe you'd rather I went back to the Panthers.

- Not on your life. We started this together, boy, and we'll finish it together.

- We'll complete the training season, and you'll complete it with us. Come on.

- And ladies and gentlemen, believe me, it should be the best welterweight battle in the past ten years.

- And sports fans, all is not so quiet on the baseball front as officials would have us believe.

- While there are no known organized movements against Montreal's Jackie Robinson, it is a fact that some cities are expressing pretty strong sentiments.

- So strong, in fact, that I hear the International League President Shaughnessy will make a significant visit to the Brooklyn Dodger office in the immediate future. Perhaps tomorrow.

[...]

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But I am certain that I, and other Americans of many races and faiths, have too much invested in our country's welfare to throw it away or to let it be taken from us.
I'm not fooled because I've had a chance open to very few Negro Americans, but I do know that democracy works for those who are willing to fight for it, and I'm sure it's worth defending.
Trouble? The only trouble I'm worried about is ground balls to my right.
That's just like you. The first thing on top is your glove. What are you gonna do with it? -I don't know. Don't know if I'll ever do anything with it again.
All right, men. I respect your right to petition. But I do question and I will fight any petition that denies any American the right to earn his living in the game that is supposed to represent the democratic principles of sportsmanship and fair play!
The Jackie Robinson Story Sound Clip

The Jackie Robinson Story Poster

Memorable voice quotes from the biographical film The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), starring Jackie Robinson as himself.

Actors: Jackie Robinson (Himself), Ruby Dee (Rae Robinson), Minor Watson (Branch Rickey), Louise Beavers (Jackie's mother)

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