We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Keep hope alive!
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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