When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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 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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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