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.
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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Keep hope alive!
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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He 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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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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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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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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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