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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.

Jesse Jackson

A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Challenge Election Politics Protection
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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Difference Herself History
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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Kind Togetherness
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
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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Nation Politics Poor
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
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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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
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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Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
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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Equality Himself Law Right Woman
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible Yourself
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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Change Different Result Tears Yourself
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Missing Vote Yourself
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Inspirational Opportunity Preparation

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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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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