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.
JESSE JACKSONI know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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