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.
JESSE JACKSONIf you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible 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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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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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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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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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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