Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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