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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

Jesse Jackson

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Attitude Oppression Violence
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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Achievement Black Equality
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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Inspirational Opportunity Walk
The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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Nation Politics Poor
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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Myself Time Yourself
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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Development God Myself Patience Perfection
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON

Democracy Soul Yourself
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst

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