If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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