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Curt Flood

"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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"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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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."

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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 lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."
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