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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.

Jesse Jackson

People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
JESSE JACKSON

Education Myself People
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Walk
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Leadership Moral
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Responsible Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Growth Home Ourselves
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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Desire Policy Strength Time
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Death People Time
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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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young

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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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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