We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSONIraq 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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