You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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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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