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 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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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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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