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.
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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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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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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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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