I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSONOur dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides 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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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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