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.
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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Keep hope alive!
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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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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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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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