From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSONWhen I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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