We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSONAmerica is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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