#ago

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#america #born #committee #economic #industrial

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#call #career #chicago #decided #i

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#big city #chicago #city #instead #large

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brothers #cause #chicago #during #farm

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ago #assistance #case #catastrophe #couple

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#another #dna #going #i #italy

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#air #between #convinced #head #journalism

I gave up shame a long time ago. ↗

— John Lithgow

#gave #i #long #long time #shame

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly