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.
JESSE JACKSONTo call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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