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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

Jesse Jackson

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
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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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
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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Life Ourselves Struggle
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible 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
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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Inspirational Opportunity Walk
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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