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.
JESSE JACKSONYour children need your presence more than your presents.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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