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.
JESSE JACKSONIt is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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