To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSONGeorge Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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 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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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.
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