In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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