#fields

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#between #black #black and white #called #depression

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#citizenship #efforts #fields #fight #full

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. ↗

— John James Audubon

#day #every #every day #fields #going

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years. ↗

— Donald Cram

#change #chemistry #every #fascination #fields

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#biology #doing #engineering #fields #following

We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#china #clearly #cultural #dividing #fields

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#battles #built #cheerful #cut #faith

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#coal #could #fields #fight #figures

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#considerable #fields #history #importance #research

I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#concrete #could #down #each #fast