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Jesse Jackson

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
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Give Up Inspirational Rise Yourself
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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Achievement Black Equality
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
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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Himself Possible
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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Difference Herself History
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
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
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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Growth Home Ourselves
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
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
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
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
I’m too mature to be angry.
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Angry Myself One Liner
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

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