If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Keep hope alive!
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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