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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
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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Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
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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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
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
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
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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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
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
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
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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Nation Politics Poor
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People

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