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.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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