Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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.
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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 want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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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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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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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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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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