Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONWe want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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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.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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