These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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