When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSONTo call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes 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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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