If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONAt the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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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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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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