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Jesse Jackson

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 View
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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Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
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
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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Kind Togetherness
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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
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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Desire Policy Strength Time
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst
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
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
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Generosity Live Value Yourself
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Different Nation Oneself
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
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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Difference Herself History
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 Limitation Oneself
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
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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Dream Memories Ourselves Strong
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Attitude Help Yourself
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Missing Vote Yourself
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
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
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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Achievement Black Equality
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See

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