If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONA Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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When 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.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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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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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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