#ten

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#backwards #born #contented #expect #free

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#life #most #others #persistent #question

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#deliberate #dishonest #enemy #great #great enemy

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#attention #get #into #men #sad

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#back #backs #bent #comes #continuous

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#color #content #day #i #judged

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention. ↗

— Regina King

#bottom #bottom line #know #line #made

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#first #group #husband #involved #man