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.
JESSE JACKSONHe should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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