Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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 wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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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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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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