I Was Brought Up To Believe That Scotch Whisky Would Need A Tax Preference To Survive In Competition With Kentucky Bourbon.
It Is A Fact That The Entire Kentucky River System, Which The Central Part Of The State Complacently Depends Upon For Its Future Water, Is Deteriorating Rapidly Because Of Strip Mining, Because Of Bad Farming, Because Of Industrial And Agricultural Pollutants, Because Of Urban Sewage. It Is Deteriorating, That Is To Say, Because Almost Nobody Cares, Or Cares To Know, Where Water Comes From, So Long As It Keeps Coming.
The Uplands Of My Home Country In North Central Kentucky Are Sloping And Easily Eroded, Dependent For Safekeeping Upon Year-round Cover Of Perennial Plants.
When You Have Large-scale Legitimated Violence In A Place That Is Divided As Profoundly And Bitterly As Kentucky Was, The Legitimate Violence Can Cause Illegitimate Violence, A Terrible Local Heartlessness And Cruelty That Feeds On Itself And Goes On And On.
In Kentucky, We're Destroying Mountains, Including Their Soils And Forests, In Order To Get At The Coal. In Other Words, We're Destroying A Permanent Value In Order To Get At An Almost Inconceivably Transient Value. That Coal Has A Value Only If And When It Is Burnt. And After It Is Burnt, It Is A Pollutant And A Waste-a Burden.
Sign At A Kentucky Appliance Store: Don't Kill Your Wife. Let Our Washing Machine Do The Dirty Work.
The Bust Of Colonel Sanders Stands As A Monument To Cruelty And Has No Place In The Kentucky State Capitol.
The Bust Of Colonel Sanders Stands As A Monument To Cruelty And Has No Place In The Kentucky State Capitol.
Every Time I Look In The Mirror, I See That Kid From Louisville, Kentucky, Staring Back At Me. His Name Was Cassius Clay.
In Florida I Was Illiterate, Boxing Authority Didn't Want Me, Then They Had A Special Psychiatrist To Come To Kentucky, They Checked And They Didn't Want Me. But As Soon As My Name Was Mohammed Ali, As Soon As I Announced I Was A Muslim, Then All Of A Sudden I Became Smart.
Boxing Is A Stepping Stone Just To Introduce Me To The Audience. If I Was Still In Louisville, Kentucky And Never Was A Boxer I Still Might Get Killed Next Week In Some Kind Of Freedom Struggle And You'd Ever Hear The News.
