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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Jesse Jackson

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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Myself Time Yourself
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
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
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
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Different Nation Oneself
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
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
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Change Different Result Tears Yourself
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
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
I’m too mature to be angry.
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Angry Myself One Liner
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Death People Time
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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Growth Home Ourselves
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

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

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