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.
JESSE JACKSONThese students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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