If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONWe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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