I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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No 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.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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