Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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