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 JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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