When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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