It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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 hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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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.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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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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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