I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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