Motivation Quote by Curt Flood

Flood is admitting that politics didn’t simply enter his life; it rewired his senses. The line starts with a cautious throat-clear ("I’ll also say, yes"), the verbal body language of someone who knows he’s stepping onto contested ground. Then he makes the pivot that matters: the "change in black consciousness" isn’t framed as a slogan or a movement outside him, but as an internal calibration. He’s describing a new baseline for what feels acceptable, what registers as wrong, what can no longer be shrugged off as "just the way it is."

Coming from Curt Flood, that’s not abstract. This is the man who, in 1969, refused MLB’s reserve clause and effectively sacrificed his career to challenge a system that treated players like property. His phrasing links that labor rebellion to the wider Black freedom surge of the era: civil rights maturing into Black Power, personal dignity turning into structural critique. The subtext is that once you recognize one form of domination clearly, you start seeing the whole architecture.

The most revealing word is "every". Flood isn’t limiting injustice to stadium contracts or headline racism. He’s naming the spillover effect of awakening: relationships, workplaces, institutions, even private compromises come under scrutiny. It’s a quiet rebuke to the demand that Black athletes stay in their lane. For Flood, consciousness isn’t a vibe; it’s a permanent sensitivity, a loss of numbness. And in America, losing numbness is often the beginning of conflict - and of change.