I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSONIf you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Keep hope alive!
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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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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