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Jesse Jackson

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
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
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
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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Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
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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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
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
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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Development God Myself Patience Perfection
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
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
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
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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Change Different Inspirational Result Tears
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
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
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
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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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Greatness Inspirational
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
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
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
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
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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Hands Myself Religious
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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Myself Time Yourself
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People

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