If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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