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.
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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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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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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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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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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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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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