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.
JESSE JACKSONNo 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.
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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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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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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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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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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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