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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

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.
JESSE JACKSON

Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSON

Greatness Inspirational
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Philosophy Talk
The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
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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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSON

Life Ourselves Struggle
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON

Democracy Soul Yourself
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Election Politics Protection
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON

Children Gift Presence Yourself
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
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSON

Death People Time
I’m too mature to be angry.
JESSE JACKSON

Angry Myself One Liner
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Character Help
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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves View
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Courage Leadership Time
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
JESSE JACKSON

Leaving Live People Time Worth
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Nation Politics Poor
We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSON

Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSON

Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSON

Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSON

Missing Vote Yourself
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Leadership Moral
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Pain Thinking

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