Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
JESSE JACKSONHe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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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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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.
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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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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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