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.
JESSE JACKSONIn tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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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