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 JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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