When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
JESSE JACKSONIf 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Keep hope alive!
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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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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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