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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

Jesse Jackson

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
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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Development God Myself Patience Perfection
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Attitude Character Help
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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Nation Politics Poor
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible Yourself
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Attitude Help Yourself
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Challenge Election Politics Protection
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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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
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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Dream Freedom Government Inspirational Limitation Right
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Education Myself People
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
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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Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person
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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Equality Himself Law Right Woman
These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Generosity Live Value Yourself
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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Inspirational Opportunity Walk

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