It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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