Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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 hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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