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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

Jesse Jackson

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Ourselves
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Kind Togetherness
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
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 JACKSON

Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Equality Himself Law Right Woman
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSON

Parents Youth
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
JESSE JACKSON

Business War Worst
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSON

Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Development God Myself Patience Perfection
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Election Politics Protection
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Philosophy Talk
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON

Generosity Live Value Yourself

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