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 JACKSONNo one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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 must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Keep hope alive!
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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