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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
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
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
I’m too mature to be angry.
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Angry Myself One Liner
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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Leadership Myself Path
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Give Up Inspirational Rise Yourself
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Attitude Help Yourself
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

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