People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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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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