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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Jesse Jackson

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
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
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
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
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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Teaching Yourself
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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Myself Time Yourself
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Change Different Inspirational Result Tears
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People
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.
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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
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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Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
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
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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Kind Togetherness
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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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
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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Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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