When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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’m too mature to be angry.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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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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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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 you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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