Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONFrom seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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 my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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