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.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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