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Curt Flood

"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."

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"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."

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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'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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"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy."

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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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"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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"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 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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