Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSONThere is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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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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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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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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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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