Quotes by Bootstraps They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length. Andrew Mitchell bootstraps length realizing It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Martin Luther King, Jr. bootstraps injustice men 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. Martin Luther King, Jr. bootstraps equality men Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. Upton Sinclair bootstraps incredibles strange