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 JACKSONI 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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