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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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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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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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