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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

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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Achievement Black Equality
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
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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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Greatness Inspirational
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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Leadership Myself Path
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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Difference Herself History
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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Teaching Yourself
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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Inspirational Opportunity Walk
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Attitude Help Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Missing Vote Yourself

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