If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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