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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.

Jesse Jackson

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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Change Different Inspirational Result Tears
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
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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God Nation Ourselves
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Greatness Inspirational
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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Himself Possible
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
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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Inspirational Opportunity Walk
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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Equality Himself Law Right Woman
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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Hands Myself Religious
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Give Up Inspirational Rise Yourself
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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Dream Freedom Government Inspirational Limitation Right
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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.
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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
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.
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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
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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Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person
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
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People

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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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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