We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Keep hope alive!
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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