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.
JESSE JACKSONI know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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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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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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