If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSONWe want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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