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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

Jesse Jackson

We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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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God Nation Ourselves View
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
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Death People Time
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
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
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
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
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

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

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