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.
JESSE JACKSONYour children need your presence more than your presents.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Keep hope alive!
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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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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