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Curt Flood

"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."

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"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."

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"When you are fully present and engaged in your workplace, you will demonstrate that you care about the success of your organization, are a team player, have a can-do attitude, and will go the extra mile to fulfill and exceed expectations."

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"It is good to work for your living."

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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."

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"Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place."

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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

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"You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk."

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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

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"The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same."

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"As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world."

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"I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life."
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"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy."
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"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."
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"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."
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"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."
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"I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America."
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"I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."
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"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution."
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