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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.

Jesse Jackson

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSON

Greatness Inspirational
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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Achievement Black Equality
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Missing Vote Yourself
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
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
These 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.
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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
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 JACKSON

Difference Herself History
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Different Nation Oneself
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
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Ourselves
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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Nation Politics Poor

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 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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