At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSONNo one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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 cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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Our 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.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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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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