We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSONWhen the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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