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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More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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