From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSONPeople like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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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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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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