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.
JESSE JACKSONKeep hope alive!
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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