If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
JESSE JACKSONFrom seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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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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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and 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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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