When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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