When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONNo one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Keep hope alive!
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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