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.
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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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 solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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