#backward

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african americans #backward #black #colleges #days

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#divide #force #forward #i #looks

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#help #how #i #learn #left

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#backwards #direction #going #group #guess

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#always #backwards #being #being nice #bending

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#backward #company #easy #forests #fur

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#backwards #being #born #dad #growing

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#farther #forward #look #see #you

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could