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.
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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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