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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.

Change, Work, Freedom

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

Rich, Poor, Off

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

Best, Far, Books

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard

God, Give, Path

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
Roger Babson

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton

Society, Down, Living

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
William Feather

Work, Land, Liked

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Alone

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.
Hugh Jackman

God, Meet, Street

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader

Government, Around, Off

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O. Douglas

Government, Off, Neutral

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Women, Sexy, Sweat

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
Lake Bell

Insecurity, Find, Read

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
Wynton Marsalis

Times, Turn, Neighbors

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden

Bad, Team, Defense

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
Jean Rostand

Work, Teacher, Him

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
Diana Vreeland

Knows, Anymore, Cuts

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Frank R. Wolf

Hope, Silence, Words

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
Boris Kodjoe

Love, Hurt, Through

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
Johannes Tauler

True, Prayer, Turn

Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
Vidal Sassoon

Beautiful, Wonderful, Face

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.
Michael Haneke

Good, Evil, Living

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
Mitch Daniels

Hope, Government, Big

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
Natalie Imbruglia

Blame, Off, Year

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.
George Osborne

Rich, Poor, Balance

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
John Cheever

Family, Remember, Leaving

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
Jim Hightower

Hard, Win, Race

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
Paul Gillmor

American, Public, Debt

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
Robert Redford

Strength, Business, Mean

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
Katarina Witt

Big, Serious, Everyone

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