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"We will not miss you and our country and culture will be better."

"Any news on the black teens that shot the baby in the face?"

"If you are burning our flag, you should be arrested and given a free ticket to the country of your choosing."

"All the helicopters and planes we sent to Egypt, went directly to the Military- and they kicked Morsi out."

"A tragedy is not the same as a crime."

"The cost of fighting evil... 1984- " in times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" Orwell."

"To Bruce, Stevie and any other entertainer; You have enough money to live anywhere, so why don't you just get out of this country you hate?"

"It is far past time for blacks to still be displayed as victims. enough"

"It's time to stop allowing people to use race to not be accountable for their actions."

"It is time to stop allowing people to use race to manipulate."

"Black parents must show their children how to dream, want a joyful happy successful life and how to achieve it"

"Circumstances of the black community will improve when thier parents make better choices for themselves and the future of their children."

"The job of actually enforcing civil rights and desegregating Southern schools fell to Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon"

"WHY ARE WE NOT AS A NATION IN FULL PROTEST AGAIST THIS RACIST HATEFUL, CHARLES RANGEL?"

"RACIST, HATEFUL AND NOT ACCEPTABLE! Rep. Rangel (D-NY): Tea Party Same 'White Crackers' Who 'Bombed Little Kids' During Civil Rights."

"It is the job of every parent to show their children how to be successful. Accomplishing an aim or purpose."

"How demeaning that race hustlers want to keep blacks as victims, instead of healthy contributing members to society."

"Al Sharpton and Company need to be deported. ANYWHERE"

"The Emett Till story in no way compares to the Trayvon Martin story. How anyone could say so is the thinking of a ill, uhealthy mind."

"Threat? Obama says racial tensions “may get worse” if his agenda doesn't get passed"

"When the nuncio asked if I would accept the appointment, I remember thinking in that moment that I had promised obedience as a priest, and this was just another part of that obedience. I remember thinking afterwards that my whole life had suddenly changed with that one phone call, but I felt a sense of peace about it, and trusted that God knew what he was doing."

"Gibson was so mean, he’d knock you down and then meet you at home plate to see if you wanted to make something of it."

"The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my daddy."

"In a world filled with hate, prejudice and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice and protest. I hate phonies. I am prejudiced against all those who have contempt for me because my face is black and all those who accept me only because of my ability to throw a baseball. I am not proud of that ability. It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift."

"People make it sound like it was easy, like all I had to do was stare at a hitter or throw inside and they’d wilt. It wasn’t like that. It wasn’t easy. There wasn’t anything easy about it."

"He hated everyone. He even hated Santa Claus."

"Don’t dig in against Gibson, he’ll knock you down. He’d knock down his own grandmother. Don’t stare at him. Don’t smile at him. Don’t talk to him. He doesn’t like it. If you happen to hit a home run, don’t run too slow and don’t run too fast. And if he hits you, don’t charge the mound. He’s a Golden Glove boxer."

"Bob wasn’t unfriendly when he was playing. I’d say it was more like hateful."

"I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the plate where I belonged and that the only thing I knew about pitching was that I couldn’t hit it."

"Hank Aaron could hit God’s fastball."

"I wasn’t mean. I don’t buy into any of it. You hear people talk about this glare that I had. You know, I’ve been wearing glasses for almost 60 years. I wasn’t glaring...I just couldn’t see the catcher’s signals. I was just trying to see. That’s all. But people turn everything into something else."

"Robert, the scales must be balanced no matter how long it takes."

"People don’t know what it was like to be a young black pitcher in those days."

"Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher in baseball. He is always pitching when the other team doesn't score any runs."

"Children whose fathers are not old enough to have seen him pitch, still come up to Gibson to say he’s their favorite pitcher, not because of his 3,117 career strikeouts or his 1.12 ERA in 1968 or his unrelenting brilliance in the World Series. No, it’s because he was mean, tough, a symbol of badass."

"I guess I was never much in awe of anybody. I think you have to have that attitude if you're going to go far in this game."

"I've played a couple of hundred games of tic-tac-toe with my little daughter and she hasn't beaten me yet. I've always had to win. I've got to win."

"When a hitter like Pete LaCock hits a grand slam off you, it’s time to hang them up."

"Is that all I did?...Hit batters? Is that really all they remember?...I wasn’t trying to intimidate anybody — are you kidding me? I was just trying to survive, man."

"I’m proud of that fact that whatever I did, I did it my way."

"They have certain rather insular attitudes which makes it difficult to maintain any long-term cooperation. It is not pleasant to work with someone who thinks of your entire species as a waste of resources."

"Well, like many fanatic creeds, if you accept the basic postulates, you can make a twisted sense out of anything."

"I will admit that I have not heard that he would directly violate his word or go back on a bargain, though he is certainly more than capable of obfuscation and creative interpretation where it suits him."

"Your problem, you pea-brained, overbearing, pompous crayfish, is that you think you have any idea of what you’re dealing with."

"I am a scientist. I do not believe in gods or demons."

"In safety and in security, in peril and plague, in victory and vengeance, may your course be ever your own."

"Maybe you should’ve been more careful, but hindsight’s perfect and we aren’t."

"But you know there’s always that nagging set of voices out there worried that someone is doing something bad with that freedom—and of course the problem is, sometimes they’re right."

"Living creatures are essentially biological carbon-based nanotech."

"People don’t mind poking into other people’s business—they just don’t want other people poking into theirs."