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.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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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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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