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Jesse Jackson

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
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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Inspirational Opportunity Walk
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
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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Equality Himself Law Right Woman
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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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Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
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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Life Ourselves Struggle
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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God Nation Ourselves
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
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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Kind Togetherness
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Generosity Live Value Yourself
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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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Attitude Oppression Violence
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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.
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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
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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Dream Memories Ourselves Strong
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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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth

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