In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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