Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps."
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Bootstraps
4 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."
Upton Sinclair
Novelist, Activist
"Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse."
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