We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them 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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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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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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