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.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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