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.
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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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 there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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 want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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