We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSONOur flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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