From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSONYour children need your presence more than your presents.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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