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.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and 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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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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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.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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