"Hands that picked cotton can now pick the…" — Charles Evers
"Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor."
More Cotton Quotes
- I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a… — Jo Brand
- I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day. — Gisele Bundchen
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not… — Maya Angelou
- I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation… — Helen Keller
- Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money… — Jimmy Demaret
- I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the… — Madam C. J. Walker
- One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to… — Sylvia Plath
- As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle… — Hermann Minkowski
- Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a… — Frederick Sanger
- I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. — Dorothy Malone
- Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton… — Yukio Mishima