Uppity People Quotes & Sayings

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world! — Pope Francis

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve. — Megan Chance

I think I'm so low key. — Ato Boldon

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time. — Jack Kilby

I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from. — Wesley Schultz

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. — David Nicholls

You all remember how many years ago, we were younger, it was uppity women who are trying to take our jobs as men. It was those gay people who wanted to make everybody homosexual in our school system. It was Blacks wanted to take white jobs. You all remember how many years ago, we were younger, it was uppity women who are trying to take our jobs as men. It was those gay people who wanted to make everybody homosexual in our school system. It was Blacks wanted to take white jobs. — Bernie Sanders

During their conversations, the subject of Domination and submission had came up a few times, and he always seemed to know more about the subject than an average person. She suspected he had a dominant side she had yet to fully experience, and decided it may be enjoyable for both of them if she let him know she was willing to embrace this side of him. — Crow Gray

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.' — Neale Donald Walsch

In 1968, when an actress made it to star status, she automatically rejected all roles that called for nudity. But Fonda broke with convention; she was a major actress who sought out roles that required her to disrobe. — Danny Peary

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar. — Dave Pirner

In the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. — William Goldman

PRIVACY IS THEFT — Dave Eggers

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anybody could rise above anything in America. ...
No, they can't, Marie said, from the backseat. How was I supposed to break out of there? What were my people going to say? Uppity. That's what. 'Cause if I can, why can't they? But I tell you what, I don't even know how it's done. I never seen nobody do it. — Dan Baum