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 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.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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