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Your parents came to this country from Italy and were allowed to work as free people.

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

You can hear this line at 00:59:55.894 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Were you born in the United States?

- Yes, sir.

- And your parents, where were they born?

- My father was born in Italy.

- And your mother?

- She was born in Italy, too.

- They came to America before you were born?

- Yeah.

- And your father, where did he work at when he first came to this country?

- On the railroad. He was a laborer.

- Your mother, did she work, too?

- She, uh, she worked in a shirt factory.

- Your father was an immigrant laborer. Did anybody get up a petition to keep him from working on the railroad?

- Not that I know of.

- Did anybody try to stop your mother from working in the shirt factory?

- Your parents came to this country from Italy and were allowed to work as free people.

- And yet you, a child and beneficiary of that freedom, want to deny the same opportunity to an American whose parents, and grandparents and great-grandparents have been in this country for 200 years. Is that right?

- How about you, Dolby? Would you have the courage to strip to the waist and tell Robinson that to his face, here, behind closed doors?

- Tell him to his face that he can't play on the same ball team with you? Tell him you're not gonna let him earn his living as a ballplayer?

- Answer me, sir!

- Mr. Rickey, I wasn't thinking. I didn't think.

[...]

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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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