Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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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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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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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