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.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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 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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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