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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Jesse Jackson

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
JESSE JACKSON

Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSON

Missing Vote Yourself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSON

Parents Youth
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Ourselves
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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves View
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Equality Himself Law Right Woman
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Nation Politics Poor
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSON

Life Ourselves Struggle
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Pain Thinking
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Black Equality
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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Election Politics Protection
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Oppression Violence
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression

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