Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
JESSE JACKSONDeliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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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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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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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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Keep hope alive!
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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