I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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