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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jesse Jackson

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Death People Time
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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Development God Myself Patience Perfection
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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Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Give Up Inspirational Rise Yourself
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
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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Kind Togetherness
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible Yourself
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
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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Growth Home Ourselves

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

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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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